Unfortunately, as Redeye VC stated in his article “The M&A Lotto” - you have a more likely chance of winning the $5 million in the New York Lotto than being acquired by either Google or Yahoo.

Google has only acquired 32 companies since 2001, Yahoo only 49 since 1997. This is an average of a little more than 5 companies per year for Google and slightly less than 5 per year for Yahoo. These are high numbers but these are also hot properties - in which Google/Yahoo have enough money to buy them out.

I think the real market for acquisitions come from the smaller new media companies (eBay, Amazon, GoDaddy, etc) and the old media as it attempts to reform and become relevant once more (News Corp, Viacom, etc). These companies are in more of a position to acquire a company with a fair amount of risk, or a company this isn’t simply mind-blowing, and then invest a vast amount of resources into turning it into something amazing.

Google and Yahoo are in the practice of taking a great service and monetizing it for their benefit (or killing it, for the Dodgeball guys). The smaller companies and old media are in the business of acquiring and making the product better, while profiting from it, in the case of MySpace, for instance.

I would like to know if Google and Yahoo has any plan to reach the small and medium-sized businesses? In my opinion, the one of them which will have an attractive offer for this segment will have a BIG + [plus].