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Microsoft and Yahoo seal web deal

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Microsoft and Yahoo seal web deal

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Microsoft and Yahoo have held lengthy talks on a tie-up
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Yahoo and Microsoft have announced a long-rumoured internet search deal that will help the two companies take on chief rival Google.


Microsoft's Bing search engine will power the Yahoo website and Yahoo will in turn become the advertising sales team for Microsoft's online offering.
Yahoo has been struggling to make profits in recent years.
But last year it rebuffed several takeover bids from Microsoft in an attempt to go it alone.
Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer said the 10-year deal would provide Microsoft's Bing search engine with the necessary scale to compete.
"Through this agreement with Yahoo, we will create more innovation in search, better value for advertisers, and real consumer choice in a market currently dominated by a single company," said Mr Ballmer.
In return for ceding control of its search engine, Yahoo will get to keep 88% of the revenue from all search ad sales on its site for the first five years of the deal, and have the right to sell adverts on some Microsoft sites.
Yahoo's search team, meanwhile, will have to brace itself for job losses over the next two years. Some staff will transfer to Microsoft, others can stay on with Yahoo, but redundancies would be unavoidable, Yahoo chief executive Carol Bartz told the BBC.

'New era'
Yahoo said the deal would benefit Yahoo's users and advertisers.
"This agreement comes with boatloads of value for Yahoo, our users, and the industry. And I believe it establishes the foundation for a new era of internet innovation and development," said Ms Bartz.
The deal became possible after Yahoo's co-founder Jerry Yang stepped down as chief executive of the company late last year.
"Only a Yahoo outsider like Ms Bartz could do such a deal," said Tim Weber, business editor of the BBC News website.
"She has no sentimental attachment to what was once the core of Yahoo, its search business. Microsoft was helped by the fact that at long last it managed to develop a search engine - Bing - that is a credible alternative to search giant Google."
Yahoo said the deal would boost annual operating income by $500m and secure $200m in savings.
The tie-up will give Microsoft and Yahoo a combined market share in the US search ad market of about 30%.
Google would still be the dominant force with a share of about 65%.

Negotiations

The deal ends years of back-and-forth negotiations between the two companies.
Microsoft originally offered to buy Yahoo in January 2008 - with an offer worth about $47.5bn.
But Mr Ballmer later withdrew that bid after Yahoo's then boss, Mr Yang, demanded a higher price.
Yahoo instead opting for an online advertising partnership with rival Google instead.
But that tie-up was later abandoned because of the risk of a protracted battle with regulators over competition issues.
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Well it's finally here. Something akin to the Microsoft and Apple choices for Computer OS, but for search engines.

Still a monopoly by Google but then again the new Microsoft/Yahoo might be better equipped for innovation in the Web market~
 
Long live Microsoft and Yahoo! Down with Google!

This is awesome.
 
That explains why Y!J made me install that stupid Silverlight to watch a friggin Movie 12 trailer...
 
...as a person who has been using the world wide web since the mid 90's, I remember when yahoo was the best thing out there for search engines. I also remember when it started to suck, and I remember when google eventually became the better search engine. It's going to take a lot to make me want to switch back to something of yahoo's for a search engine... I just don't see it working.
 
Unless Yahoo search becomes much better, I'll stick to google as google does have over 8 billion we pages stored on its search, don't see Yahoo beating goodgle anytime in the near future on being top search engine, IMO, google often finds more that yahoo won't, even with Microsofts help it would still take a while to catch up to google and you can register your site with google and might have a chance of adding it so their search index, don't think you can yet do that with yahoo.
 
Satoshi-kun said:
...as a person who has been using the world wide web since the mid 90's, I remember when yahoo was the best thing out there for search engines. I also remember when it started to suck, and I remember when google eventually became the better search engine. It's going to take a lot to make me want to switch back to something of yahoo's for a search engine... I just don't see it working.
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Same here. Though this deal sounds like it's keeping Bing.com as a search engine and just adding the information they've now acquired from Yahoo. I gave Bing a try (looks like Live.com was an epic fail) and I really don't like it. I'm sticking with Google.
 
The beauty of Google is that its main search page has continued to stay rather simple.
 
Satoshi-kun said:
The beauty of Google is that its main search page has continued to stay rather simple.
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Yeah, that's why I'm turned off by Yahoo and Bing.

So what exactly did they change from Live Search other than the name?
 
Satoshi-kun said:
The beauty of Google is that its main search page has continued to stay rather simple.
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True, yahoo seems overcomplicated to me and I only ever use it to find out some news and live search is just a bit slow for me when I use it. I rarely use bing, only found it by mistake when I searched for something and bing came up (which before then I never heard of)

Plus I like the way the google logo changes for events and certian dates, and how you can calculate things with it, like if you type into google, 123456KB in GB, it gives you 123 456 kilobytes = 0.117736816 gigabytes or how you type define: before a word and it gives you a defination based on what webpages say about it.

Plus you forgot one magor thing: Googlewhack. Not exactly the same doing it on other search engines is it?
 
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