On: Google mulling role in possible Yahoo bid

[notatoad]

sounds to me like yahoo is spreading rumours to drive up their stock a bit. there's no way that google actually wants yahoo.

[emmett → notatoad]

Seems to me that Google would of course want to buy Yahoo, they would be most able to monetize the search.

The question is whether the government would allow it, due to antitrust.

[chubot → emmett]

Uh, Yahoo search is run by Bing now... that wouldn't make any sense. Yahoo has no search to monetize.

http://mashable.com/2010/08/24/bing-powers-yahoo-search/

[dstein → notatoad]

They didn't actually want to buy Motorola Mobility either. But they did.