Pending regulatory approval, the number two and three search engines will combine their forces for an alliance that will tackle Google on its home turf of web search.
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The deal will see Microsoft technology will now power the internet searches and ads on Yahoo site, the partnership will also allow Microsoft to introduce its search engine Bing to a wider audience.
Personally, I see this is a good thing in the long term. As we all know that more competitions is a good thing for healthy market. However, an assault on many open-source extremists' beloved Google is likely to cause boycott.
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