Yahoo, Microsoft finally begin search integration
InternetNews | at | by Mike
At long last, Microsoft and Yahoo are ready to begin putting the technological pieces in place behind their multiyear, multibillion-dollar deal to see Yahoo's search infrastructure outsourced to Microsoft's Bing. It's all in the name of taking on the No. 1 search player, Google, of course, and despite the milestone, both challengers have a great deal of work still ahead of them.
Yahoo and Microsoft's long-pending search deal has cleared almost all regulatory hurdles, and for the second- and third-place players in search, it's now time to get down to implementation.