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Microsoft and Yahoo Finally Strike A Search Engine Deal

It’s been nearly two years in the making, and Yahoo have gone through a CEO and have had their shares suffer horribly, but finally Yahoo have been able to come to some sort of agreement with Microsoft in their attempts to fight of the growing global power of Google.

Having said that it’s not so much of a combination of resources as a shifting of them towards Microsoft’s pride and joy (and admittedly fairy impressive) Bing – Yahoo will move their searches to Microsoft and they will concentrate on the sales of ‘billboard style advertising’ to attract people towards their already fairly popular sites.

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Bing Search Engine More Popular Than Yahoo?

The top three search engine websites over the last few years have been fairly consistent – Google have been out in the lead with Yahoo and MSN trailing quite a way behind, not that they haven’t been trying to make up some of the ground between them.

Recently we had Ask’s attempt to claw back market share with the re-introduction of Ask Jeeves (which as of yet hasn’t done anything remarkable) and now its Microsoft’s turn to revamp the search engine that has so far been only semi-successful: Live search has now become Bing.

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Google Labs Adds Similar Images and News Timeline Search

Just yesterday Ask.com brought back Jeeves in an attempt to fight back against Google, so it is very apt that today Google released two new experimental products that will hopefully change the way we search – and in the meantime add nails to the coffin the likes of Ask.com and Yahoo.

The two new ideas in question are ‘Similar Images’ and ‘Timeline’ both of which are very different from what we’ve seen before, and both of which should not only boost Google’s popularity but also raise awareness of the ‘Labs’ section of Google which has been given a little bit of a makeover.

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Ask.com Brings Back Jeeves

I think it’s fair to say that some of the search engines out there are starting to clutch at straws in their attempt to claw back market shares from Google, Yahoo going into talks with Microsoft being a good example. But Ask.com are struggling as well, so they have called on the person who made them the company they are – Jeeves.

Yes, our favourite online answer-retrieving butler is back – and although Ask.com hasn’t told us why, the answer is probably to try and increase traffic on the back of people visiting on the back of curiosity, or for the nostalgia.

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Microsoft and Yahoo In Talks…Again!

You will remember that just under a year ago Microsoft launched a takeover bid of around £22 billion for the internet company Yahoo, which after a lengthy three month debacle resulted in the deal falling through and making many shareholders pretty unhappy. But less than a year on, and a new person in charge at Yahoo, they have started talking again.

This time around though they aren’t talking about any kind of takeover (directly anyway) – the main objective is to pool their resources in the aim of halting Google’s growing dominance on the internet market, something that will benefit both parties greatly.

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Yahoo Fulfils Grim Promise to 1,500

I think it would be putting it lightly to say that it has been a bad year for Yahoo, who started the year with high hopes of seriously challenging Google’s growing domination but are now in serious financial trouble. And when the going gets tough, people get made redundant and Yahoo have started to carry out the 10% job cuts that they promised to do by the end of the year.

Obviously like everyone else they are trying to cut back in expenditure due to the economic slow down, but their problems have been exacerbated by a series of disasters that have seen their share prices plummet and income decrease. They have watched their grip on Internet search slip through their fingers and they are in danger of slipping into the worlds of anonymity and the pages of history.

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