Kara Swisher: "I am not clear what the benefit of uniting two troubled Internet companies is, but I am sure AOL and Yahoo investment bankers can explain it all away (taking tips, presumably, from the advisers who cooked up the first disastrous AOL merger with Time Warner)."

Henry Blodgett: "Will Yahoo blow Q1? Certainly possible. The economy is tanking. AOL is sucking wind. Even Google appears to be having a rough go of it. And unlike Google, Yahoo has a lot on its mind other than the crappy economic environment."

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