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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. Google worrying. by pushing-robot · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yeah.

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  2. Re:Goodbye old friend. by HouseOfMisterE · · Score: 5, Informative

    Others may joke, but I agree with you. I'll miss them, but goodbye to my.yahoo.com and www.yahoo.com.

  3. Re:Yahoo's promise to discard data after 3 months? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    scroogle is a good search engine. http://www.scroogle.org/scraper.html

  4. Love the Yahoo by mcrbids · · Score: 4, Informative

    You gotta love the Yahoo, if for no other reason than Zimbra. More than any other piece of software, it's the "Exchange Killer" that we've all wondered about. It matches, feature-for-feature, Exchange. It's (mostly) open-source. It runs fine on Linux. It works with Windows, Mac, Linux, KDE, Google Calendars/Email, and just about everything else, including my WinMo phone.

    It's a god-send, it works nicely with basically no fuss or hassle, and it's owned by Yahoo.

    Hey, if Yahoo goes belly up, I just hope they sell Zimbra to somebody who can take the good thing handed to them and DO SOMETHING with it!?!?

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    1. Re:Love the Yahoo by nazsco · · Score: 2, Informative

      You gotta love the Yahoo, if for no other reason than Zimbra. More than any other piece of software, it's the "Exchange Killer" that we've all wondered about. It matches, feature-for-feature, Exchange. It's (mostly) open-source. It runs fine on Linux. It works with Windows, Mac, Linux, KDE, Google Calendars/Email, and just about everything else, ...

      They say that the internal project to make zimbra the internal email plataform at yahoo (like gmail is at google, under the Mona name) was handed over to a bunch of people that actually had Exchange Engineer as their work title. So, the Sr. exchange Engineer veredict was that exchange was better. What a surprise. Zimbra will probably get sacked.