Micro-Yahoo Search Engine

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Or is it Yahoo-Soft?

Microsoft Corp. has finally roped Yahoo Inc. into an Internet search partnership, capping a convoluted pursuit that dragged on for years and finally setting the stage for them to make a joint assault against the dominance of Google Inc. The 10-year deal announced Wednesday gives Microsoft access to the Internet's second-largest search engine audience, adding a potentially potent weapon to the software maker's Internet arsenal as it tries to better confront Google, which is by far the leader in online search and advertising. Microsoft didn't have to give Yahoo an upfront payment to make it happen, as many Yahoo investors had hoped.

Google tried to stop Yahoo from falling into Microsoft's camp. Last year it formed its own proposed search advertising deal with Yahoo, only to be forced to retreat from that alliance after U.S. antitrust officials threatened to sue.

The extended reach will allow Microsoft to introduce its recently upgraded search engine, called Bing, to more people. The Redmond, Wash.-based software maker believes Bing is just as good, if not better, than Google's search engine. Taking over the search responsibilities on Yahoo's highly trafficked site gives Microsoft a better chance to convert Web surfers who had been using Google by force of habit.

Full article here.

 

[amicus]

I put, "Bing' on my desktop as a shortcut and also Google Chrome, although I haven't explored it much yet, between Mozilla Firefox, which burps nows and then as does 'Explorer', dunno which one I hate the most....

amicus

 

[DesertPirate]

Based on past history and current events, this will be just more crapware.
IE by M$ is un-secure, always has been always will be. M$ has never even tried to be standards compliant, they make up their own as the go along.
Bill Gates ego will never let him admit there needs to be a compleat re-write of Windows and IE. No they have not done that with Vist or Windows 7, there is still code in there from Windows 3.0 and every release since, that is the problem.

I have no faith in M$ ever doing things the right way.

 

[penandpaper]

I am enjoying bing at the moment. I like the picture and cute facts they have at the beginning. Plus, if you look-up porn, all the movies play on-screen. Nice for research!