I don't know one person that gets anything but annoyed from online advertisements... However, Microsoft could be after what the millions of people use Yahoo to do everyday, search the internet? Yahoo's search data would give Microsoft access to globs of information. Not only to obviously annoy more people, but give Microsoft more access to a far greater pool of public interest. I am not a lawyer, nor do I know Yahoo's user agreement, but does Yahoo have the ability to sell Microsoft stores of search data?
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I don't know one person that gets anything but annoyed from online advertisements... However, Microsoft could be after what the millions of people use Yahoo to do everyday, search the internet? Yahoo's search data would give Microsoft access to globs of information. Not only to obviously annoy more people, but give Microsoft more access to a far greater pool of public interest. I am not a lawyer, nor do I know Yahoo's user agreement, but does Yahoo have the ability to sell Microsoft stores of search data?