Microsoft Claws at the Coffin Lid

Yahoo! is an obvious move for Microsoft. But it’s too late. The train has left the station. Microsoft’s own search service plus Yahoo!’s is still only a small fraction of Google. Google is already the established name brand, elsewhere Microsoft’s only advantage. And Google is free to users; Microsoft cannot kill it by giving away their competitor free, as they did with Netscape or RealPlayer. They are never going to catch up to Google now. This means Microsoft is dead meat.