Google is going to have the same destiny like Netscape had before?
- By Amir Nouri
- Published February 3rd, 2008
Amir Nouri
I graduated my college in Architecture and right now I am going to refresh my knowledge and learn more about American Standards at NWTC. My hobbies are: Helping out People, Computers, Software, Internet, Web Design and Cooking. I like to travel to see new countries, cities, and amazing cultures. I have only one thing to say: If you want to be successful in your life you have to be focused on your Goals.
I am also the Founder of Article Inspector
Few days ago Microsoft surprised the entire industry with a formal takeover of the company Yahoo. Although there were already rumors for months appropriate, believe it but nobody wanted. This deal costs almost 45 billion US dollars for Microsoft.
After that Yahoo announced they will go through Microsoft Offer to find out what to do in this case. It is based primarily at the wishes of shareholders. Experts believe that there are no problems in the future.
For the Internet would these giants wedding mean some changes With “Micahoo!” would be stand a huge enterprise in direct competition with Google. The biggest arenas of competition should fight the advertizing markets and also the search engines. In both areas, Google has currently ahead.
What power “Micahoo!” could have, it has been seen in sales. Google could make 16.59 billion US Dollars in the year 2007 but Microsoft and Yahoo “Micahoo!” could make 58.1 billion US Dollars together.
But to merge two such large companies like Microsoft and Yahoo “Micahoo!” could be difficult, at least in the history. The best example comes from the year 2000 when the internet provider AOL has sold to the media group Time Warner for incredible 164 billion US Dollars. The idea was very good: AOL had 35 million customers and Time Warner could afford many different services.
But the merger was for all parties to a disaster. The shareholders lost their money and many employees their jobs. Time Warner is still trying to fire the last vestiges of AOL. Problems are also between Microsoft and Yahoo “Micahoo!” inevitable, as an analysis of Web services.
Both companies offer so many the same web services and when they come together they will be duplicated. This begins with the portals MSN.com and Yahoo.com, goes beyond the mail services Yahoo Mail and Hotmail and ends with MusicMatch from Yahoo and Zune Marketplace from MSN. If you look at the services accurately, there are still many portals that they overlap each other.
Microsoft should develop a strategy for “Micahoo!” how to combine services without to lose customers. If a product be deleted simply the competitor Google would have good cards to get the homeless.
In competition with Google, “Micahoo!” would have a decisive advantage and that means Windows. It happened in the history one time how Microsoft could be the winner in World Wide Web competition. You could look back of 90s, when Netscape was the market leader in Internet Browsers. But Microsoft developed his own browser and integrated into the successful operating system Microsoft Windows and after that Netscape was displaced within the shortest possible time.
The question is if it could be happened the same to Google?
