Microsoft and Yahoo may well tie the knot this week in search and online advertising. If they do, consumer groups will be ready to pressure the DOJ and FTC to make sure the search engine providers maintain user privacy as they put Google in their sights. The Center for Digital Democracy is watching. Analyst Charlene Li said regulators want to see Microsoft and Yahoo take on Google.
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If Microsoft and Yahoo do
get in bed together on some sort of search and online advertising deal, it
should boost the competition quotient as the companies seek to challenge
goliath Google, whose 65 percent of the search engine market share makes it a
world beater.
While a Microho…