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Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal Gets Go-Ahead From EU, US DoJ

Posted by timothy on from the will-it-blend? dept.

CWmike writes "Microsoft and Yahoo announced Thursday morning that the US DOJ and the European Commission have approved an agreement between the two firms to have the Bing search engine power Yahoo's sites. The companies said that engineers will begin adapting Bing for the Yahoo site 'in the coming days' and that they hope work is completed, at least the US, by the end of this year."

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  1. Re:I think... by sys.stdout.write · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yahoo CEO Bartz in a statement. "Yahoo gets to do what we do best: combine our science and technology with compelling content to build personally relevant online experiences for our users and customers."

    "Science"? I think Yahoo! took the "Google Labs" thing a little too literally

  2. Welcome to Google... by iCantSpell · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yahoo users.