10-year search deal of Yahoo and Microsoft

**Display Houses** · 12-10-2009, 03:41 AM

Yahoo! and Microsoft have finalised the terms of their search agreement, five months after announcing the deal.

Microsoft's Bing and Yahoo! search are pooling their efforts in order to try and take on the dominance of Google in the search market.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...arch-deal.html

**Moore** · 12-10-2009, 04:00 AM

Their close cooperation now won't bring any good to their main competitor Google for example. As they will become really stronger.

**Rebe83** · 02-22-2010, 06:38 PM

Both MSN and Yahoo will have to work really hard to remove google s name from the mind of internet users

**Section8Pros** · 03-02-2010, 12:38 PM

I don't know very much about the internet. I use it often enough, but I don't know how the "behind the scenes" thing works.

However, it seems to me that Yahoo made a clever entry into the marketplace by providing users with one of the (if not THE) most efficient search engine while providing organized hyperlinked material, too.

Their main business was acting as an efficient search engine.

To me, it seems like they took their eye off that ball. Today, they seem to focus mostly on providing news and other information. Personally, I like using Yahoo better than Google. However, I know that Google has more resources.

Don't even tell me about Microsoft's Bing search engine product. It might be okay, but the same "eyes off the ball" complaint applies there, too. Microsoft is a software/operating systems specialist company masquerading as a "Google" alternative.

Google only focuses on everything that returns users to their search engine. They really seem to be a tremendously innovative company, much like Yahoo used to be.

**maui** · 03-21-2010, 03:22 AM

With Google's growth, it is hard to see it losing its dominant spot in the foreseeable future. Bing's (msn) new face is looking sleek and will get a better share if/when it gets its big marketing push. Personally, I think google has too much control currently and it would be better for users to have some healthy competition among the SE's.