Gaming Yahoo Will Switch to Bing Search Engine

[Vidboy10]

At the corporate level, Microsoft and Yahoo have agreed on a search and advertising partnership, potentially raising their joint search share to 25 percent of the market. What users will notice, however, is Yahoo switching to Bing's search engine.

Update: The story went from sourced to officially announced after this post went up.

If you're a frequent web searcher concerned with Google's overwhelming hold on the market, this could be considered intriguingly helpful news. Bing's gained a foothold as an up-and-comer, at least among Lifehacker readers, and has won plaudits for its eyeball friendliness, rapid feature deployment, and, well, a lot of people like those big home page pictures. Microsoft and Bing hold about 8.4 percent of the search market, according to last month's ComScore research numbers, while Yahoo claimed 19.6 percent. Google continued to dominate with around 65 percent of search traffic.

On the other hand, if you're an advocate for web anonymity, or you happen to work in the U.S. Department of Justice's anti-trust division, you'll likely be keeping an eye out to see what happens. Bing and Yahoo trading search and advertising targeting information might not sit right with many web wanderers, and, in some ways, it decreases the value of Yahoo as a alternative to Google's data monopoly.

What's your take on the new link between Sunnyvale, CA and Redmond, WA? Could a stronger second-place competitor push Google into more innovation, or does such a move only seal up the search market even tighter? Tell us your take in the comments.

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[Golfman560]

Gogole still rocks my sox off. The only reason I use Yahoo is for my fake emails.

 

[PettingZoo]

I'm still sticking to Google.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Well this was rather large economic news today. Hell I saw it on MSNBC (since I watch it a lot). I'll probably still stick to Google, since any person with half a brain will know what key words to type and get what they want.

 

[Ferrariman]

My Google with Greasemonkey scripts in Monopolfantasitic-Interfantabulous!

 

[DigitalSquirrel]

Wow, they're fuckin' fail. You CANT beat google.

 

[gumbyscout]

I think this is bad

. I use yahoo for my email, but I would rather them not have any agreements with the evil pseudo-monopoly Micro$oft.

 

[Hop2089]

Google is a GOD, no merger can't beat a god company.

 

[myuusmeow]

My goal in life is to work for Google.

Hell, my goal in life is to step inside the Googleplex.

 

[wolffangalchemist]

as if bing wasn't a gay enough name.
i used to have a yahoo email till i lost my password and they wouldn't give me a new one because i forgot who i said my childhood hero was, T.T then i got a gmail account and all is good.
Google is a pretty cool guy he searches the intarwebs and doesn't afraid of anything.

 

[UltraMagnus]

wonder what this will mean for YIM?

not really all that interesting though, I only use yahoo for groups, and that doesn't seem to be effected by this

 

[Elritha]

I'll be sticking to google for now, though this partnership is interesting. Would be nice if google weren't so dominant in this market. Competition and all can be very healthy for improvements.

 

[Wabsta]

Why doesn't google just stay as a searching engine, and M$ as a OS developer?

 

[Elritha]

There's always more profit to be made. Can't say I blame them from a business point of view.

 

[Mangofett]

I tried googling with bing but I didn't like it. i'll google with Google.

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

I hate bing, Yahoo! FTW!!!11!1

 

[NeSchn]

Bing blows, I hate Bing.

 

[SifJar]

Well, I prefer google, but bing's image search is quite nice. It just shows all results on one page, you just keep scrolling, and when you click one, it still has the rest down the side. But still, google is better.