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>>>Microsoft! Bids! 44.6! Billion! For! Yahoo!
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>I still find it unbelievabe that ADVERTISING is deemed to have such value.


There you go with the value judgments again. "How much is it worth?" questions are actually pretty simple. If it wasn't worth that, nobody would pay it. If someone does pay it, it's worth that much, at least to them. These are basic laws of economics.