Google is doing everything possible to make Microsofts job hard in this takeover. Google has agreed to help out Yahoo by participating in an unusual test that will gauge how much more advertising Google can sell for Yahoo!

The two-week experiment will be limited to ads posted alongside a small percentage of Yahoo's online search results in the United States.

Article about Caxton Associates (managed by Bruce Kovner) Q4 holdings and investment in Omnicom Group, a buy or sell?

Excerpt from the article says it best: "There’s been so much commentary on the proposed mega merger, it borders on overwhelming. Anyone with an inkling of insight on tech and an opinion is weighing in while we all wait for the next dose of fact to supplant innuendo. While I wait, one wonder keeps hitting me: is Microsoft’s collective head in the cloud?

Just came across this article on Nabloid.com. They believe that Yahoo can surpass Google in growth because of their size. They liken Google to a fat kid who will have a lot harder time doubling in size than a ?small? kid. I would have used the analogy, "it is easier to doubly a penny than a dollar," but that is just me.