Microsoft made a $44.6b bid to take over Yahoo, apparently in an effort to compete with Google. Makes me wonder, as someone in the Utah SEO industry, how this will affect internet marketing in general (if it ends up going through). Issues of anti-trust are being brought up by the Justice Department, so it will be very interesting to see how it plays out.

One interesting item of note mentioned in an article on msn: advertisers are expecting to double their online ad spend over the next three years. This is good news for the internet marketing industry - both seo and ppc companies can expect to see an increase in contracts from companies looking to compete online. At least that’s my take on it.

At any rate, I’m interested to see how this plays out. Yahoo has turned Microsoft’s offers before, but now it seems that they’re considering this one. We’ll see…