With Yahoo’s search market share likely to slip below 20%, it makes sense to do some sort of deal with Microsoft — and it should be a very profitable one for YahooYahoo and Microsoft are talking again, this time about some kind of search/advertising deal, rather than a takeover. Bobbie Johnson has already reported the story in Microsoft and Yahoo revive talks as Google leaps ahead, so I’ll skip that. But behind the scenes, there’s a little battle being fought with toolbars.As the Dow Jones news wire has reported, “Yahoo could lose up to 15% of its search traffic over the next 12-to-18 months after failing to renew deals with two computer makers.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/apr/10/yahoo-microsoft-search-deal
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