http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050630/2102/ Technology, music, video, art, news, reviews and muse on the web Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:45:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050630/2102/#comment-8656 Stiennon Mon, 11 Jul 2005 21:59:34 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050630/2102/#comment-8656 While I agree that MSFT buying Claria is totally misguided I have different reasons. Bad press and upset or outraged users has never hurt MSFT in the past. I believe that Google has created an amazing new industry (keyword ads) that is SERIOUSLY eating into every advertising revenue model (why is Doubleclick in the doldrums?). Claria's model is *not* going to help MSFT one bit. MSFT would never get $500 million in revenue from it, let alone a return on investment. While I agree that MSFT buying Claria is totally misguided I have different reasons. Bad press and upset or outraged users has never hurt MSFT in the past. I believe that Google has created an amazing new industry (keyword ads) that is SERIOUSLY eating into every advertising revenue model (why is Doubleclick in the doldrums?). Claria’s model is *not* going to help MSFT one bit. MSFT would never get $500 million in revenue from it, let alone a return on investment.

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]]> http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050630/2102/#comment-7735 Scott Thu, 07 Jul 2005 15:53:35 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050630/2102/#comment-7735 Makes me glad I use linux :-) Makes me glad I use linux

]]> http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050630/2102/#comment-7656 Nik Cubrilovic Fri, 01 Jul 2005 06:05:28 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050630/2102/#comment-7656 You might be right, the fall-out from this announcement is a lot bigger than what I had expected it to be. Seems that nobody is willing to forgive Claria and that Microsoft will not be able to spin anything good out of it if they do go ahead with the purchase. With all the opinions of the last 24 hours, I would be very suprised if they go ahead now. You might be right, the fall-out from this announcement is a lot bigger than what I had expected it to be. Seems that nobody is willing to forgive Claria and that Microsoft will not be able to spin anything good out of it if they do go ahead with the purchase. With all the opinions of the last 24 hours, I would be very suprised if they go ahead now.

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