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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."

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  1. 10 years is a LOOOOOOOOONG time... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    10 years is a very long time in the Internet world. After all, Google has only existed just slightly longer than 10 years, and look at all it has done in that time.

    It seems very absurd to make a deal for that long. Although it gets much traffic, Yahoo! itself is barely relevant today, and Bing hasn't exactly been shown to be a challenger to Google's search results.

  2. Re:Microsoft monoculture by hoytak · · Score: 5, Funny

    True. This is a sad day for everyone who searches bing and yahoo first before trying something else. All 8 of them.

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