* To Admin: please delete my previous poll which had some errors, thanks a lot! In July 2009, Microsoft and Yahoo! agreed to integrate their search engine & advertising services and in Feb 2010 they got the approval from US and EC authorities. Reportedly, they are going to start offering the joined system & services from late 2010. If they can ultimately offer new "search advertising" service on a single integrated platform bringing in aggregated search traffics from both sites and all their related sites, then will the online advertisers be likely inclined to experiment with this new integrative service? How about you? zoen
That's really good point I never thought of. Yeah, there will be likely some early adopters for the new service platform.
No, two quirky, substandard searcn marketing platforms combined are just going to be one big clunky mess in my opinion. Did you know that Yahoo reps are going to be managing the clients that move over to the new system on Microsoft? Yes, you will have Yahoo reps for your Bing account. Unless you don't want an account rep in which case you will just have Microsoft support, which is ok. At least they seem to care about customers, which is more than I can say for most of the Yahoo reps that I have talked to. Only one was good, again in my opinion. From my perspective, Microsofts system is still not out of BETA, and yet Yahoo is moving to it. I would have preferred as bad as Yahoo's system was that MS move to IT, but no such luck. I hope they do better, but I don't expect anymore from this than I do from what they did with "Bing".
Their system might not be better than now. But my poll focuses on the "to-be-increased traffics" from both sites. The early adopters would take some advantage from using it. Maybe the question is misleading. But I have no idea how to edit the poll.