It looks like this chapter is still not over.   Today I read that Legg Mason Capital Mgmnt has back Jerry Yang and the current board of directors.  This rejects Carl Ichan’s arguement that the board of directors botched the Microsoft merger talks.

Its my personal opinion that they should stay independent of Microsoft’s Live search if they are acquired either way.  Obviously some technology sharing is needed to help improve both search engines results (Live more that Yahoo).  To the public they should stay separate.   We need more choices that less in the search engine industry.

Hopefully Yahoo! in its current form can resist the massive pressure that is being put on the company and stockholders for major change that will go with its acquisition talks.

Here is a link for news on the current situation