On the rebound, Yahoo! goes back to Microsoft

It is often said that one should never look a gift horse in the mouth. This little gem of wisdom is always applied with a good dose of hindsight and in this case is applicable to the once mighty search giant Yahoo! and more aptly, to it’s beleaguered Chief Executive Jerry Yang’s attempt at trying to resurrect some form of deal with Microsoft. A deal that Yang and his board walked away from a few months ago.

Though Steve Ballmer, the legendry sales guru and more recently CEO of Microsoft has totally ruled out any takeover, he has left the tiniest of door opening by saying that he may consider some form of tie-up around paid search.
This is a shrewd move by Ballmer who has give the classic corporate stance of ‘Microsoft have moved on’…to knowing deep down inside that any form of collaboration that involved Microsoft taking even the slightest of chunks from mega rival Google’s market share would probably elevate him into demigod status at the Software companies Seattle HQ.

Watch this space….