>Dvorak, decrying Microsoft's attempt to buy Yahoo! in order to compete with Google:
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>"Earth to Microsoft: Yahoo! is not worth $44 billion. You could buy General Motors lock, stock, and barrel for $14 billion, name all the cars "Google Sucks," and get more bang for the buck. Heck, you'd have enough left over to buy Ford for around $16 billion, and you could name all those cars "Google Sucks More" and still have $14 billion left over for a big party."
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>http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2293345,00.asp


What a disaster that was all the way around. Steve Ballmer has been justifiably criticized for launching a hostile takeover attempt, then backing off. And Jerry Yang has all of Yahoo's institutional stockholders steaming for turning down an offer several dollars a share over market value. Both companies lost stature. The only winner, in sort of the John McCain role, was Google.