Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance



have you guys been living under a rock? This shit has been signed for almost a year, only thing needed was the approval.
 
One less competitor in the game.
And helps protect them in the anti-trust game. Unfortunately, due to a poor understanding of monopoly, big firms have to prop up competitors even when they are obviously superior, to avoid being broken up by government anti-trust regulators. An ideal scenario is for Google to own 55% of the search market, and for YaBing to own another 35-40%. That keeps competitors out as the monopoly, becomes a duopoly. They both trade share as a shell game, to keep the regulators off their back.

The Ford, Chrysler and GM perfected this model over decades.

For anyone who is interested in better understanding what I mean,

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwH8unDcdMY"]YouTube - Monopoly and Competition[/ame]