As most everyone in the search industry already knows, yesterday Microsoft and Yahoo reached a long anticipated and rumored search pact.
Because of the capital costs of maintaining a competitive global search engine, search engine market consolidation was inevitable.
I have commented about the Microsoft Yahoo search opera on several search industry blogs and wrote a blog post back in February 2008 about the real reason Microsoft needed to do a search deal with Yahoo : Microhoo vs. Google: The Battle for Audience and Keystrokes.
Tags: Bing, Microsoft, Search Engine Market Consolidation, Search Opera, Yahoo
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