{"id":2556,"date":"2008-02-01T07:37:24","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T14:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2556"},"modified":"2008-02-01T07:38:37","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T14:38:37","slug":"m-soft-bids-for-yahoo-what-does-it-mean-for-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2556\/m-soft-bids-for-yahoo-what-does-it-mean-for-search\/","title":{"rendered":"M-soft bids for Yahoo! What does it mean for search?"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Yahoo News linked here<\/a> Microsoft has tendered an unsolicited bid for Yahoo that would make it (in theory) a realistic competitor to Google in the search engine world. They are not even in the same league at the moment.<\/p>\n

I had posted a couple of weeks ago about Yahoo laying off hundreds and the power of focus<\/a>. Seems that Bill G. thinks he can bring some focus to them…it will be interesting to see. What will be even more interesting to see is (IF this bid is accepted and I would think it would since it is a large percentage over current stock values…) how they attempt to take on big G.<\/p>\n

I will be posting some more in depth thought on how this MAY impact search marketing and search engine optimization efforts in the real estate space as the story develops. I think they will have a difficult time in getting their search results more relevant than Google’s are right now. <\/p>\n

There could be some interesting implications to many REALTORS who currently derive much exposure from the search engines.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to Yahoo News linked here Microsoft has tendered an unsolicited bid for Yahoo that would make it (in theory) a realistic competitor to Google in the search engine world. They are not even in the same league at the moment. I had posted a couple of weeks ago about Yahoo laying off hundreds and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[40],"class_list":{"0":"post-2556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-yahoo","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":335,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/335\/yahoo-we-can-cancel-the-newspaper-subscription\/","url_meta":{"origin":2556,"position":0},"title":"Yahoo! 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