Do you really have any idea how big Yahoo is, or hell, how big MSN is? There’s a lot of overlap between the two, and Long Zheng & Josh Philips have been kind enough to generate a nice chart to show the two. The chart is reproduced below, with some notes added by me regarding what I think about which service will be rolled into the other.
Microsoft, Yahoo, And Lots Of Overlap
If Yahoo agrees to Microsoft’s proposed takeover, the two companies will have a lot of duplicate services to either integrate or eliminate.
Top Web Sites Have Retention, Overlap
Nielsen//NetRatings has announced the leaders in three Web categories. Search, career development and multi-category travel have had high month- over- month visitor retention rates from June to July, but also had audience overlap with other competitors in their categories.