Comments on: Google to provide search + ads for MySpace (and other Fox properties) http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2006/08/google-to-provide-search-ads-for-myspace-and-other-fox-properties/ The Virtual Investor Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:25:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: matthew http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2006/08/google-to-provide-search-ads-for-myspace-and-other-fox-properties/comment-page-1/#comment-28723 matthew Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:21:41 +0000 http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2006/08/07/google-to-provide-search-ads-for-myspace-and-other-fox-properties/#comment-28723 now, if only some of that money would go to scaling the myspace servers now, if only some of that money would go to scaling the myspace servers

]]> By: George Nimeh http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2006/08/google-to-provide-search-ads-for-myspace-and-other-fox-properties/comment-page-1/#comment-26986 George Nimeh Tue, 08 Aug 2006 01:01:27 +0000 http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2006/08/07/google-to-provide-search-ads-for-myspace-and-other-fox-properties/#comment-26986 The lump-sum deal for Fox makes a lot of sense ... There is very little risk. So, even if the kids decide to move on from MySpace, FIM will still make some cash. $25M/month is a big number, and coming from AltaVista, you know that Levinsohn must have a lot of experience doing search deals. Bad news for Yahoo, indeed. But have you tried the Yahoo/Overture search on MySpace? To put it nicely, there has always been a lot of room for improvement. Hard to believe that they never tried to improve it. Google must be happy. Not only do they beat out the competition and wrap up one of the last huge deals out there, they'll also have a base of over 100 million people to develop/refine a social search engine. And in the meantime, they have a ton of new inventory for AdSpace. Finally, I think the days of spinning off new media companies are over. And if not, we'll have one more sign of a new tech bubble. The lump-sum deal for Fox makes a lot of sense … There is very little risk. So, even if the kids decide to move on from MySpace, FIM will still make some cash. $25M/month is a big number, and coming from AltaVista, you know that Levinsohn must have a lot of experience doing search deals.

Bad news for Yahoo, indeed. But have you tried the Yahoo/Overture search on MySpace? To put it nicely, there has always been a lot of room for improvement. Hard to believe that they never tried to improve it.

Google must be happy. Not only do they beat out the competition and wrap up one of the last huge deals out there, they’ll also have a base of over 100 million people to develop/refine a social search engine. And in the meantime, they have a ton of new inventory for AdSpace.

Finally, I think the days of spinning off new media companies are over. And if not, we’ll have one more sign of a new tech bubble.

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