Microsoft-Yahoo search deal approved

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8522606.stm

 

I'm not sure what to think of this. Hope it works out for the better.

 

i see it that yahoo realises it's search is weak and will never beat google, so they might as well partner with micrsoft and make money. in general though, yahoo is dying: Facebook Overtakes Yahoo: Now the Second Most Visited Site in U.S.

Source: http://mashable.com/2010/02/17/facebook-unseats-yahoo/

 

Yahoo's search engine has always had more visits than Bing and still does today. Just over a year ago it had 20 something percent market share. Since then, it's dropped to around 12% but still ahead of Bing. So saying Yahoo's search engine was weak is not true. If anything, Bing brought it down.
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I am still a little confused. I know that the PPC platforms will be one and the same, but will general search use Bings search engine and algo? Meaning SERPS from Yahoo and Bing will be the same?

 

Thats interesting. I never thought Microsoft would team up with Yahoo.
Doesn't matter though, they're still the shitiest search engines.

 

Its all good as long as we dont have an absolute monopoly. That kind of scenario would brutal on advertisers.

 

Ever heard of Google? lol. Stop drinking the Koolaid

 

No doubt that after the merger of the 2nd and 3rd largest industries in search networks there investment power will increase and their products will Definitely challenge the one from Google.

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Well the 3rd engine war has started , we will win!! LOL

 

Hmmmm they are doing for google? i think they want to be popular than google

 

I also read about that agreement...

The weird part is that so far Yahoo search is still powered by Yahoo, and their bot keeps crawling my sites. Kinda weird to keep their bot running if they're switching to Bing, if you ask me.

 

anyway,who cares about them? they can't do a thing as long as google will be..and it will be for a long time..

 

Nice Update
but as downloadvyp said this won't have much impact as far as google is there

 

It's a terrible deal for us, the consumers. Less competition is never good. It won't bring us lower acquisition costs, it won't give us better search. The only parties that will benefit are Microsoft and Google

 

u cant make yourself like Google, when u r not really are.

 

did you guys try Bing ads? Google ads are too expensive... I'm thinking to start with Bing

 

man, that was one of the most difficult sentences i've ever read

 

yahoo bots are unactive these days

 

Google is king of all search engines, that's deal may be give some relief to yahoo but no worries for Google.