Yahoo, don’t count your answers so quickly…

Why can’t Google purchase a worthwhile competitor to Yahoo! answers?  The 30-50 million it would take to purchase the number one answer site would be a rounding error.Maybe this space just isn’t of interest to Google, but for some reason, I don’t think the answers business is something Google would pass up.  They’re basically, an answers company.  I ask their search engine to find me a term, and it gives me an answer.  Anyone have any thoughts on who a potential acquiror could be?   I still think Yahoo! would have a market lead, but it would definitely crash the Yahoo! morale boost party. I agree with Tech Crunch, that this is a big win for Yahoo’s Web 2.0 strategy… an immediate win. I also think that Mike’s right: Google’s model worked for 2002.  In 2006, an advertising model is what works.  Know who this gives a lot of morale too as well? AOL.  They just changed their entire financial model to Advertising. Just some thoughts.
PS- Today is going to be a light posting day, as I’m swamped.

[tags] yahoo, yahoo answers, google answers, web 2.0, publictivity, google, tech crunch, AOL, advertising [/tags]