Microsoft Bing now running all of Yahoo search

[onehandle]

Source: Seattle Times

Bing is now running all of Yahoo's searches in the U.S. and Canada, Microsoft said Tuesday.

The two companies are combining their search through a partnership to create a larger second-place player to compete with the kingpin, Google search engine.

Search results on Yahoo will show "powered by Bing" at the bottom of the search results page. Microsoft is licensing Yahoo's search technology.

According to research firm comScore, Google had 66 percent of U.S. search traffic in July. Yahoo had 17 percent, while Microsoft had 11 percent. Combined, the two would have had 28 percent.

Read more: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/microsoftpri0/2012708941_microsoftbingnowpoweringyahoosearch.html?syndication=rss

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Whatever slows Net Neutrality killer, Google.

[RandomThoughts]

1. Suppose to be breaking up corporations, they still arn't listening.

Ashley Tisdale - Crank It Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnSbpPXlmvo


Although that is there choice, they probably think it is wrong.


Note my argument is not that those people are worse, but that more decentralized forms of governance helps more.

[msongs]

2. remember when google positioned itself as the good guy? no longer nt

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. Someone needs to write a screensaver program that will search

google for 10 gazillion things it has never heard of.... that will keep them busy and out of trouble, not to mention totally fuck up their profiles of the "average" internet user.

[BadgerKid]

8. See TrackMeNot add-on

"Protects users against search data profiling by issuing randomized queries to popular search-engines"

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3173/

[unblock]

10. oh, goodie. microsoft to the rescue.

:eyes:

[ejpoeta]

4. i find it funny just simply because i believe the creator of google tried to

sell it to yahoo didn't they?

[onehandle]

6. They would be today's Google if not for a Lot of business mistakes. nt

[Hawkeye-X]

5. I have not used Yahoo as a search engine for a long time.

So it doesn't bother me.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

7. Yahoo SUCKS. They took their eyes off the prize in the name of "ad revenue."

I have been using Bing as my default search engine in the wake of the Google / Verizon deal.

Yahoo can BITE ME.

[onehandle]

9. So have I. At least they aren't dealing with Google. nt

[and-justice-for-all]

11. I changed my homepage from Google to Bing...nt

[Frank Booth]

12. That's a good idea. I'll do the same.

Bing's actually quite good. They came up with that scrollable image search, for one, that Google promptly ripped off.