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	<title>RefreshWeb &#187; search engine wars</title>
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		<title>Yahoo! rejects Microsoft</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara Rasco</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft buyout]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Search Engine Land&#8217;s post on the proposed Yahoo! buyout has email from Y! CEO Jerry Yang to the employees. From the way it sounds, one thing that won&#8217;t be going directly to Google is the search marketing portion of Yahoo! In the &#8220;actions that need to happen&#8221; section of the email, Yang writes: must buy: [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://searchengineland.com/080211-092006.php" target="_blank">Search Engine Land&#8217;s post</a> on the proposed Yahoo! buyout has email from Y! CEO Jerry Yang to the employees. From the way it sounds, one thing that won&#8217;t be going directly to Google is the search marketing portion of Yahoo! In the &#8220;actions that need to happen&#8221; section of the email, Yang writes:</p>
<blockquote><p><font color="#333399"><strong>must buy: </strong>at the same time, we will increasingly make online      advertising easier and more effective for marketers, opening up new ways for      them to address consumers. our right media exchange, acquired last year, is      more open and easy to use, simplifying transactions for buyers and sellers      of online ad inventory. another 2007 acquisition, blue lithium, brings us      best in class performance marketing. while weâ€™ve historically tracked the      success of our ad business by focusing on metrics related to our owned and      operated sites, our goal is to increase the percentage of the total online      advertising demand we touchâ€”to 20% of our addressable market over the next      several years, from an estimated 15% in 2007. </font></p></blockquote>
<p>I had wondered about that, since Panama&#8217;s only been running for about a year. Even before they announced their rejection this morning, there have been <a href="http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/yahoo-said-to-be-restarting-talks-with-aol/?hp" target="_blank">rumors of Yahoo! renewing talks with AOL</a>. I haven&#8217;t a clue what that would gain Yahoo! in the long term since AOL is a slowly-failing dinosaur who uses Google&#8217;s search results. Who still uses AOL?</p>
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