NYT: Google Caused Microhoo Deal Collapse

Here’s a theory about the whole Microhoogle thing, courtesy of Miguel Helft in today’s New York Times, that lays the blame for the deal’s collapse squarely on Google’s front lawn. The backstory: Google’s phenomenal rise caused Microsoft, the dominant technology company for more than two decades, to court Yahoo, he wrote. And Google’s success also weakened Yahoo enough to give Microsoft the sense that it could buy the company at a good price.