The two together will make them #2. Companies only care about marketing to the lion-share which is Google and if they had to make a choice in a bad economy they would choose Google.
Watch this deal closely - several months from now - you will see this was not a good idea. Microsoft doesn't need to pay 44 billion for the #2 spot when they get there by web enabling Microsoft office and outlook.
This will be look at as a bad move by Microsoft. I know they can afford some miscues but Yahoo users will abandon this MicroHoo combination because both companies are not interested in securing web users anonymity.
They feel as if Microsoft is big brother. Yahoo had bad press recently with keeping users identities from the Chinese government. I think it caused someone to loose there life.
Google gives their users the ability to turn off web search history and have been very vocal about keeping web surfing patterns private.
Trust me if this deal happens MicroHoo will find out that a lot of users will migrate to Google.
