Neither Yahoo7 nor ninemsn was today willing to comment on what the implications would be for their operations from the global search and advertising deal inked by Yahoo and Microsoft overnight.
The local versions of Microsoft's latest crack at Google, a new search engine called Bing, will go live in Australia and New Zealand on Wednesday in beta form.
Microsoft's CEO touts the company's newly named online services chief and says having him on board would make a Yahoo search deal simpler.
According to The Times of London, Yahoo and Microsoft are once again working on a deal to combine some of their operations.
Jerry Yang's resignation as chief executive of Yahoo opens the door wide for another Microsoft offer, analysts and shareholders said this week.
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Nobody, least of all Yahoo and Google, doubted that the two companies' search-advertising deal would escape any antitrust scrutiny.
On Saturday, Microsoft formally withdrew its offer to acquire the search pioneer, at least for now. So what happens next for Yahoo? A deal with Google looks likely.
While Wall Street clamours for a piece of the search king, start-ups are trying to fill in the technology niches.
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Free voice calls and voicemail, built-in Web searches, and drag-and-drop photo sharing make Yahoo's new instant messenger a fun, powerful IM tool.
This browser is built on the Internet Explorer engine yet includes built-in features Microsoft does not provide.
Web portal MSN is testing a new search service that touts faster, tidier results, in what is the latest development in a fast-moving contest to help people find what they're looking for online.
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