The Industry Standard - Yahoo! formalizes search ad deal with Google - Comments

From the comments, did the

Bradley Baker — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:43:01 -0700

From the comments, did the prediction take a tumble from the ~91% around 4:30EDT and then rebound?

It would be nice if we had price graphs (another suggestion for the "to do" list). While I'm tossing out suggestions, net worth graphs for the player portfolios would be a neat feature as well.

Doesn't seem like TOO much

Bradley Baker — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:44:34 -0700

Doesn't seem like TOO much of a disaster for you (or me and likely a few other people, for that matter).

Still a nice reminder that "sure things" aren't always.

Oof! What a hit. That's

Eric Hill812251 — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:26:42 -0700

Oof! What a hit. That's what we get for anticipating something from "reported" anonymous sources. What a disaster (if you bet today, like I did).

@Kuan Yes it looks like

Chris Tompkins — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:45:19 -0700

@Kuan

Yes it looks like there will be no judgment today. Its hard to tell if the announcement was real or just a figment of TechCrunch's imagination. But one thing is for sure... With 2 VPs and a lead developer gone today along with 10% loss on the market, Yahoo is not in the best of places.

Hmm... 1:30 Pacific time has

David Kuan — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:20:43 -0700

Hmm... 1:30 Pacific time has come and gone ... no confirmation on announcement of deal. Perhaps, the YHOO stock plunge (down 10%) gave them cold feet?

An announcement of a deal is

Roger Harris — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:53:42 -0700

An announcement of a deal is imminent apparently, according to TechCrunch

More on this came out today

Eric Hill812251 — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:36:00 -0700

More on this came out today in the Post

Yahoo! formalizes search ad deal with Google

The Standard — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:38:31 -0700

It is a done deal with this press release. The program is non-exclusive and the scope remains TBA, but the deal is now official, Yahoo! has joined AdSense, and the conditions of this prediction have been satisfied. The community was correct. --The Industry Standard

UPDATE: Looks like something big might be brewing this afternoon, according to TechCrunch.

MG Siegler over on VentureBeat has a piece on how Yahoo is talking with Google about having them handle some of the advertisements on its search pages:

"This partnership is said to be a test for what could become a larger one — which reads a lot like: A test, small enough to make sure the government doesn’t get involved with its antitrust hounds, but with enough promise to allow Yahoo to fend off Microsoft."

The Wall Street Journal broke the story of the partnership, which portends bigger things between the two giants perhaps.

The test will last up to two weeks and involve no more than 3% of Yahoo's Web search queries, Kevin Delaney and Matthew Karnitschang write.

This is a prediction that Yahoo! will announce a full-fledged partnership with Google by the end of Q2, officially joining the Adsense program. How much of its natural search results that Yahoo! ultimately decides to farm out to Adsense is outside of the scope of this prediction and will not factor into judgement.