Is it true that Yahoo + AOL + Microsoft = Google Killer?

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Last week, Merrill Lynch analyst Jessica Reif Cohen told reporters that an AOL Yahoo merger was possible in 2007. Cohen said an AOL Yahoo merger was "one of the more logical combinations" to take on Google, cut costs, and combine audiences, and that Time Warner was open to it.

This caused quite the buzz, spawning charts with potential combinations of companies that could merge with or be acquired by another company for strategic reasons. A Yahoo AOL combination is considered among the most likely, as is a Microsoft buy out of AOL and/or Yahoo.