Update on Yahoo-Microsoft Talks: “Hot and Heavy”
kara.allthingsd.com 4/21/2009 — Microsoft and Yahoo have been busily ferreting away on talks about search and advertising partnership possibilities in what one person close to the situation described as "hot and heavy." Exactly how hot and how heavy depends on which side you ...

How Google Shot Microsoft After It Took A Knife To A Gunfight
searchengineland.com 3/28/2009 — Google’s a split-personality company. On the one hand, it wants people to believe that it could lose its customers at any time, lest it get viewed as a monopoly. But question its ability on the technical front, and the Big G will go off on you ...

Exclusive: Yahoo’s Bartz and Microsoft’s Ballmer Finally Talking About Search and Advertising Partnership
kara.allthingsd.com 4/10/2009 — In early discussions that began in the last several weeks that apparently included a face-to-face meeting last week, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer are finally talking about search and also advertising partnerships the ...

Microsoft, Yahoo Search Deal is Official
searchenginejournal.com 7/29/2009 — As expected, the Yahoo-Microsoft search and online advertising deal is now official . In simple terms, the deal is all about Microsoft powering Yahoo search while Yahoo serving as the exclusive worldwide relationship sales force for both ...

Microsoft Live Search is Now Bing
blog.searchenginewatch.com 6/11/2009 — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today drew back the curtain on the new incarnation of Live Search: Bing. Speaking at the D7 Conference in San Diego, Ballmer launched Microsoft's new Search brand, formerly code-named "Kumo." Bing will begin rolling out ...

It's Official: Microsoft and Yahoo! Finally Strike Search Deal
blog.searchenginewatch.com 7/29/2009 — Don't adjust your screen folks, it's finally official. Microsoft and Yahoo! have finally struck a search deal. No, Microsoft will not be acquiring all of Yahoo! No, Yahoo! will not be slicing off search and selling it off to Yahoo! Under the 10 ...

The Yahoo-Microsoft Deal from Searchers' Perspective
blog.searchenginewatch.com 7/29/2009 — So by now, you've probably heard about the Microsoft - Yahoo search deal . You may even have read my take that this will be good for advertisers . If not, go back and start there, so we're all caught up. I got responses from several other search ...

Yahoo's Bartz Says Gut Instinct Not To Sell Search Business
money.cnn.com 1/15/2009 — SAN FRANCISCO -(Dow Jones)- New Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) Chief Executive Carol Bartz told employees on Wednesday that she needs to better understand the pros and cons of selling the struggling Internet giant's search business, but her gut instinct was not ...

Yahoo committed seppuku today
calacanis.com 7/29/2009 — Yahoo committed seppuku today. The once proud warrior of the internet space laid down its sword, knelt at the feet of Microsoft and gutted itself today. There was no honor in this death, it was one brought by the shame of losing to Google and ...

Microsoft, Yahoo! agree on Internet search partnership - Yahoo! News
news.yahoo.com 8/3/2009 — SAN FRANCISCO Microsoft finally persuaded Yahoo to surrender control of the Internet's second most popular search engine and join it in a daunting battle — taking on the overwhelming dominance of Google in the online advertising market. A 10-year deal ...

@ McGraw-Hill: MSFT's Ballmer: Bullish On Yahoo Search Deal; Economy Will Help Us Beat Apple — paidContent 3/19/2009
[ In progress ] After discussing the state of the economy, Steve Adler, BusinessWeek's editor-in-chief, opened day two of the McGraw-Hill Media Summit by asking Microsoft ( NSDQ: MSFT ) CEO Steve Ballmer why doesn't the company dominate search. ...

@ McGraw-Hill: Ballmer: Apple Is Too Expensive For This Economy (And That's Why MSFT Will Win) — paidContent 3/19/2009
The deteriorating economy and cutback in consumer spending will hurt Apple and Microsoft ( NSDQ: MSFT )—at least that's the way MSFT CEO Steve Ballmer sees it. In a BusinessWeek editor-in-chief Steve Adler"> BusinessWeek editor-in-chief Steve ...

Yahoo Image Search Shows Off New Filters — Top News - WebProNews 3/19/2009
Image search is probably not, to be honest, something that the average person uses every day.  For those occasions when you're looking for just the right pic, though, Yahoo's introduced a new set of filters that brings its engine roughly up to ...

The Madness Continues: Google Lets Microsoft Power NCAA Games On YouTube — paidContent 3/20/2009
Google is pretty open with content providers on YouTube—the one exception is that it requires them to use the YouTube player and hosting service—which limits its negotiating power with media companies that have existing deals with other tech ...

IE 8 Equipped with Microsoft Live Search Accelerators — Top News - WebProNews 3/20/2009
A you're probably aware, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 browser is now generally available. What you may or may not be aware of is that Microsoft has included some accelerators for Live Search within it. Users can highlight a word and hit ...