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Microsoft and Yahoo Reach Deal

Posted by kdawson on from the rhymes-with-sting dept.

e9th writes "We know that Microsoft failed last February in its attempt to buy Yahoo. Now, Advertising Age reports that they've reached a deal. Instead of a buyout, the two will enter into a revenue sharing agreement, and Bing will become Yahoo's default search engine. The meat of the AdAge article can be found in Yahoo News. This deal may give Google something to worry about."

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  1. Goodbye old friend. by thatkid_2002 · · Score: 5, Funny

    BRB, cancelling my Yahoo! account.

    1. Re:Goodbye old friend. by Tubal-Cain · · Score: 4, Funny

      And I had set Yahoo as Firefox's address bar search engine only a few days ago...

    2. Re:Goodbye old friend. by Yvan256 · · Score: 4, Funny

      And my Firefox's address bar search engine was only two days away from retirement!

  2. I just asked Google if it had any reason to worry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It said 0 results found.

  3. Bing... by freedomlinux · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bing will become Yahoo's default search engine.
    I think I just cried a little...

    1. Re:Bing... by Itninja · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yahoo has always been the swinger of the search engine party. For a while it was even powered by Google. When Bing gets old and fat Yahoo will move onto some other nubile young thing.

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  4. Two wrongs don't make a right... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    But two trains traveling a break-neck speeds towards each other with no sign of stopping makes me feel like throwing some popcorn in the microwave.

  5. Re:Google in trouble? by Tumbleweed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cobbling together 2 inferior technologies doesn't give you a superior one.

    Hey, it worked for Reese's!

  6. Re:Everybody needs competition by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    When that competition arrives, I expect to read about it here, today is not that day.

  7. Re:I just asked Google if it had any reason to wor by Tubal-Cain · · Score: 4, Funny

    If that's true, it missed the antitrust investigation against them.

  8. Re:Moot point by amicusNYCL · · Score: 4, Funny

    So I use M$'s search and its like here's your answer 'dumbass' you should have already know it.

    ...yet something tells me that anyone who refers to Microsoft as "M$" has no problem using something called "The Gimp".

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  9. Re:Google worrying. by davester666 · · Score: 5, Funny

    He missed out on the part that one of them gets shot as part of the tying process...

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  10. Re:Google in trouble? by Ihmhi · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't think the "You got Bing in my Yahoo!" commercial would fly so well. I'm sure someone would misinterpret it.

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  11. Re:What happened to Cuil by iamapizza · · Score: 3, Funny

    They got slashdotted.

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