Comments on: Google feels the Microsoft Bid is “Hostile” http://www.ginside.com/2008/1383/google-feels-microsoft-bid-hostile/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=google-feels-microsoft-bid-hostile Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:16:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jonathan Dingman http://www.ginside.com/2008/1383/google-feels-microsoft-bid-hostile/#comment-539 Jonathan Dingman Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:47:43 +0000 http://www.ginside.com/2008/1383/google-feels-microsoft-bid-hostile/#comment-539 Carmelo, While I completely agree with you, I feel that Microsoft is going after brand recognition and brand trust more than just the numbers and size. Yahoo! is ranked, by Alexa, as the number one most-visited website on the Internet world-wide. That's brand recognition and a user-base that you can't buy (unless you just buy the company, like Microsoft is attempting to do.) They could, yes, incentive users to switch to MSN, but that still doesn't promise retention. Carmelo,

While I completely agree with you, I feel that Microsoft is going after brand recognition and brand trust more than just the numbers and size. Yahoo! is ranked, by Alexa, as the number one most-visited website on the Internet world-wide.

That’s brand recognition and a user-base that you can’t buy (unless you just buy the company, like Microsoft is attempting to do.)

They could, yes, incentive users to switch to MSN, but that still doesn’t promise retention.

]]> By: Carmelo Lisciotto http://www.ginside.com/2008/1383/google-feels-microsoft-bid-hostile/#comment-538 Carmelo Lisciotto Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:35:35 +0000 http://www.ginside.com/2008/1383/google-feels-microsoft-bid-hostile/#comment-538 Big waste of money for Microsoft, they could have built up MSN for 1/100th of the spend and make it twice the size of Google. Carmelo Lisciotto Big waste of money for Microsoft, they could have built up MSN for 1/100th of the spend and make it twice the size of Google.

Carmelo Lisciotto

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