Yahoo! strikes! display! ad! deal! with! boss's! old! boss! Google!
Yahoo! has inked a contextual advertising deal with Google, the financial terms of which were kept secret. The move comes as ties between the Purple Palace and the Chocolate Factory have grown closer in the months since Marissa Mayer - one-time senior Google darling - took to the helm of Yahoo!. Its agreement with Google is …
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Squids-in
There's that word 'inked' again.
Trusty old Cambridge dictionary is still holding out.
Exclamatory inheritance
Somehow the final exclamation mark in the headline feels wrong. It's difficult to put my finger on, but Google inheriting Yahoo!'s trademark punctuation is a step too far. I of course defer to the headline writing soviet's wisdom in the matter.
Maybe in future, in an effort to keep things fair, whenever Google and Yahoo! appear in the same headline Yahoo!'s lettering could appear in googlicious multicolours?
Re: Exclamatory inheritance
I wonder if the terminal exclamation mark was there by grammatical necessity, unlike all the others, thus appearing the odd exclamation mark out? I fully endorse your googlicious multicolours motion but wonder if, in that case, the headline would need to be terminated with a pair of exclamation marks?
Naturally I defer to the wisdom of the headline writing soviet.
and so the takeover begins...
Will we need a new name for the two soon — Yoogle! perhaps.
Like the fact that a watch or car combined with a computer is essentially a computer, so any smaller company working with Google becomes essentially Google. Is Yahoo! + Google = Google?
Re: and so the takeover begins...
Googoo, Gahgoo, Goohoo, ...?
Re: and so the takeover begins...
Goohoo!
+1
(The exclamation mark being imperative, of course)
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