Microsoft and Yahoo have finalized a deal in which Microsoft Bing will power Yahoo search. Microsoft and Yahoo were supposed to consummate this so-called Microhoo deal by Oct. 27, but the companies delayed signing to finalize details. The deal is a valiant effort to challenge Google, which has a 65 percent share of the U.S. search market and 70 percent share of the worldwide search market, easily outstripping Yahoo, Microsoft, Ask and other players in the market combined.
– Microsoft and Yahoo Dec. 4 said they have finalized a deal that would enable Microsoft Bing to power Yahoo
search.
quot;Microsoft and Yahoo believe that this deal will create a sustainable
and more compelling alternative in search that can provide consumers,
advertisers and publishers [with] r…