Gotta SPAM problem? Blame AOL, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo

Mary Ann Cyster · Top Commenter · Marketing at Students Circle Network
Be Afraid.. Be very Afraid Facebook. However, this does not give them the leverage of Facebook's social graph, user data and preferences and more.

Olasode Abraham · Subscribe · CEO at Abraolas It Institute
when the acquisition of aol by yahoo is done.... what is the consequence tha faceook will face?

John Fernandez
I think this has more to do with fending off google. Microsoft is not only a partial owner of facebook, but they are also the provider for search advertisements on facebook.

Afif Ghannoum
It's just not true to say advertisers are flocking to FB. Just because they have fan pages, doesn't mean they're actually buying the ads. WSJ had a great article on just this point last week, that basically big brands are still not flashing cash to FB, just using it for free brand pages, and paying OTHER media outlets to direct people to their FB pages- basically Fb is becoming a free template site provider for many large brands. Of course there is some money being spent by brands, but not in proportion to what should be being paid for the amount of traffic Fb gets http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204294504576613232804554362.html.

John Ramey · Works at Isocket
It's important to note the specific wording they've used in these announcements - "premium non reserved" - that's essentially remnant inventory. This is a non-announcement.



Angelina Christopher · Top Commenter · University of Lincoln
Nice every one together to fight Facebook great the war must be written in the Book....... with Golden Alphabets...... Keep it up I am looking forward to it..........http://www.saqibimran.com/.

Nebojsa-Nash Stamenkovic
Facebook is a fad just like iEverything. Building a brand and service that is to stick around requires more value, constant innovation, and retention of good corporate image. Facebook will go the way of dinosaurs like MySpace and Geocities before that. My bet is on Google in the long run. There is hardly any other innovation I'm seeing out there, everyone just seems to be repackaging old technology and selling it as new...

Hanson Yuen · Top Commenter · Atlanta, Georgia
This is a good approach, at least focusing on their main strength, which is journalism. For me, that's the only reason why I would still visit yahoo.com. As for msn or aol, no comment. But the big challenge for the big 3 will be, when one day, everyone turns to Google for news.

Uyai William Ukpe · Top Commenter
aol and yahoo coming together to do anything? a partnership made in hell approved by IE:)

Hua Zhong · Top Commenter · San Jose, California
Looking forward to AOL/YAHOO merger, for there will be one fewer company that sucks.

Martin Saint-Macary · Subscribe · Paris, France
Is this any new from what was announced back in september?

Joe Shuman · Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
put three losing companies together to make on big loser.

Robert Wynter Gibbon · Solutions Architect at Consultant / Alcatel-Lucent Bell
The upper table in the blog post shows the figures as documented in the prose; but there is also a lower table, which shows a totally different set of figures that place Google in the lead by some 10x. Which is right?

I suspect some massaging of facts here...c'mon, out with it!