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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. I think... by sys.stdout.write · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think I support this... I mean, Yahoo and Microsoft of course both suck, but Google needs some legitimate competition in the search market...

    1. Re:I think... by Enderandrew · · Score: 4, Insightful

      But this is less competition. Yahoo is no longer providing their own search results.

      Google just lost a competitor.

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  2. Who will suffer? by nicknamenotavailable · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So will this make Yahoo suck like Bing, or Bing actually find pages (I'm interested in) just like Yahoo?

    Every time I've used Bing, I've been disappointed.

    1. Re:Who will suffer? by wealthychef · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I love that a posting that starts out "I refuse to read" is marked up as being "informative." Oh, Slashdot! You make me smile a little.

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  3. More choices? wtf? by nicknamenotavailable · · Score: 4, Insightful

    FTA

    "I believe that together, Microsoft and Yahoo will promote more choice, better value and greater innovation to our customers, as well as to advertisers and publishers."

    Wait, Two companies combining forces, eliminating the better search engine(IMHO) and then we're told this will result in "more choice"?

    I really don't understand how this could be, but I won't use Yahoo (a mediocre SE. at best) anymore. For me it means less choice.

    1. Re:More choices? wtf? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      currently in online advertising there is ZERO choice, you go with google or you get only a fraction of the audience, by joining up with bing (the better search of yahoo and bing imho) they gain enough market share to be a viable choice, hence there is more choice.

      also don't make the mistake that you are the customer here that is supposed to get more choice, you are googles/bings/yahoo's product, the customers/consumers are the advertisers and they are the ones getting more choice.

  4. Why is it okay for Microsoft? by Enderandrew · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Google wanted to infuse Yahoo with money to keep them afloat with a search deal. It was immediately killed as an anti-trust violation, and they threatened Google with the possibility of breaking them up if they attempted something like that again.

    So Microsoft infuses Yahoo with money in a search deal and it is approved.

    I know Google has a larger market share than Yahoo, but which of the two companies has been anti-competitive in their business practices?

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

    Yahoo users.