The AP in Seattle today reported that Microsoft and Yahoo may have finalized a Internet search advertising partnership aimed at narrowing Google’s chunk of the lucrative piece of the online advertising market pie.
Microsoft just recently launched Bing, it’s new search engine, which leads us to nickname the new Yahoo, Bing ad alliance as “Ying”.
As of now, it looks as though Yahoo will handle ad sales and customer service and Microsoft will power search results and display the appropriate ads to display.
It is unsubstantiated, but expected that part of the deal includes Yahoo promoting Bing on its engine.
As of last week: Google is unrolling a Free PC operating system to rival Microsoft … Call it a touche’ to Microsoft’s recent attempt to tread on Google’s search engine turf with Bing. (Want to compare Bing vs. Google search engine results side-by-side? Check out http://bing-vs-google.com/)
Google pretty much much owns search engine land, but it only recently made a dent in the internet browser field with Chrome and it’s slight and simple
Office-like suite. The operating system, incidentally, will also be named Chrome, according to news reports.
Google made this last announcement a month after Microsoft launched Bing, its first search engine.
Chrome OS will be available in the second half of 2010.
Google is working with Acer, Asustek, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments on the project.
