Microsoft and Time Warner Team Up Against Google

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday December 6, 2005 @10:10AM from the still-haven't-found-what-i'm-looking-for dept.

PlayfullyClever wrote to mention a Reuters report on an online advertising deal between Microsoft and Time Warner. The two companies are teaming up to take on Google's advertising network. From the article: "The [WSJ] said the two companies were now focusing on a deal that would combine their advertising-related assets, with little or no money changing hands. It said they expected to reach an agreement before the end of the year, but that it was still possible that Time Warner's America Online unit could strike a deal with competitor Google instead."

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Re:doomsday. by colonslash · 2005-12-06 12:48 · Score: 5, Informative
It is easy to pull numbers out of your ass. In fact, I'll pull them out of onestat's ass: The 4 largest search engines on the web are:
1. Google 56.9%
2. Yahoo 21.2%
3. MSN Search 8.9%
4. AOL Search 3.2%
If your numbers are from TFA, I can't see it because the link is giving me a Yahoo! error page, so I went to Google to find some info.
Are your numbers for unique visitors to any page owned by the companies in your list? Do those numbers even matter- aren't we talking about ads in search results?