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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 algormortis · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, Google should have some competition, however do you really think that Microsoft really needs to get any bigger? We've been hearing about Apple and Google going at each other's throats for quite some time now. I'd like to see if Apple ever steps up with a search engine of their own.

  2. And Ubuntu transitions to Yahoo search by wdconinc · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's ironic. Just today Firefox on Ubuntu (Lucid) was updated to default to Yahoo search...

  3. Re:Both? by westlake · · Score: 2, Informative

    Now I can ignore both at the same time!

    Because ignoring Microsoft has served the geek so well in the past.

    Yahoo draws about 130 million visitors a month, who spend about 5% of the their time online there.