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These kinds of deals baffle me. What, exactly, can Yahoo do that Microsoft can't? Do they have some secret search or IM technology that Microsoft engineers can't duplicate? Microsoft can't find any yodelers?

Yahoo has servers, but 44 Billion dollars can buy a bunch of desktops.

I'll assume that Microsoft isn't made up of a group of blithering idiots and think it's a good buy. The only thing I can think of, then, is that Microsoft is buying the most expensive client list in history. Microsoft wants all of those email accounts, home pages, and the traffic from the number one site in the world, according to Alexa.