Recent estimates swirling about Silicon Valley peg privately-held Google's worth between $17 billion and $19 billion.

so How much do you think Microsoft is willing to pay if they want to take over Yahoo! ?

I think Google is much better than Yahoo if you take one by one comparision of Google and Yahoo products. The way Google got the success in last 10 years was really remarkabale.

But Yahoo is the old player and the data base and other things are way ahead from Google. Even Yahoo groups are much active than Google.

So it will take time to reach at the level of yahoo as a whole.

according to me google is far better than Yahoo, google is the best search engine in the whole world, the amount of data they have yahoo dont have that much amount of information for a single thing