Hey Google Chew On This One

Microsoft's unsolicited bid for Yahoo for $31.00 a share is a bid to keep Microsoft and Yahoo in the game against Google. There is no immediate impact on Google as it will take several months for this deal to be approved and many more months to integrate products. But what if Google were to make a bid for Yahoo. After an acquisition they could divest itself of the Yahoo search engine (might be required by regulators) and keep the Yahoo portal which is the most visited portal on the web, thus driving more Google search and ad revenues.