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Yahoo Gives Up on Search

Originally published by "dbarker" on 2009-07-29 11:31:00Z

Yahoo Gives In to Microsoft, Gives Up on Search: Yahoo keeps getting pared down, eventually to nothing.  I think this really weakens them in terms of potential takeover attempts.  What do they really have left?

In a deal that presages its departure from a market it once dominated, Yahoo will essentially scrap its own efforts to best Google in search and instead rely on Microsoft’s recently debuted Bing search engine […[

I continue to use Bing, six weeks later.  It’s quite good.