Analyst dismisses $20 bln price tag for portal's search unit In recent days, it's been reported that Microsoft is considering buying Yahoo's search business for as much as $20 billion in a couple years. The price tag seems a bit high for Yahoo's search unit, when the entire company is worth $15 billion. In fact, Yahoo's search business is worth more like $2 billion, as estimated by  Sanford Bernstein analyst Jeff Lindsay, who was on an All Star Analyst Panel I moderated at the AlwaysOn Venture Summit this week. Lindsay said that at best the search business could generate some $800 million in three years, based on how much revenue Yahoo would have brought in if it had done a search deal with Google. Potential revenue would have to be ... [ Read more ]