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Microsoft, Yahoo Finalize Search Agreement

Posted by Soulskill on from the keeping-up-with-the-googses dept.

Joe Quimby writes "Microsoft and Yahoo have finalized and executed their Web-search agreement after five months of deliberation, the companies announced Friday. Microsoft and Yahoo reached a revenue-sharing agreement in July to combine their search businesses. Under the 10-year agreement, Yahoo's Web search would be powered by Bing and Yahoo would retain most ad revenue from its site."

3 of 77 comments (clear)

  1. Yahoo is still relevant, but... by IANAAC · · Score: 2, Informative
    Yahoo is still relevant, but probably not how you'd imagine.

    Pretty much any new (and existing) ATT and Comcast accounts use Yahoo for mail services, not to mention they set Yahoo as the homepage that most users don't bother to change.

  2. They'll go to Weird Stuff Warehouse by Animats · · Score: 4, Informative

    They'll go to Weird Stuff Warehouse, the surplus place near Yahoo HQ. Want a few hundred servers cheap? They have them stacked up.

    Dismantling a failed company is routine in Silicon Valley. Big assets are auctioned off by DoveBid. Miscellaneous computers go to Weird Stuff. Furniture and partitions go to Consolidated Office Outfitters. In less than a month, the building will be empty and ready for rental.

  3. Not the first time by Bill,+Shooter+of+Bul · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yahoo has historically had a number of search providers other than themselves. Starting in 1996 with Altavista. They used Google as well at some point, maybe Inkitoni too? Whatever makes yahoo whatever yahoo is, isn't the search engine.

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    Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.