As has been widely reported Microsoft and Yahoo are combining their search technologies in the hope of making one unified search tool that finally can put some hurt into Google’s dominance. Under a just announced deal Microsoft will get a 10 year license for Yahoo’s core search technologies and Microsoft’s Bing will be the exclusive algorithmic search for both companies. This new collaboration is intended to combine the forces of Microsoft and Yahoo to create a more potent challenge to Google’s search dynasty. I predict the one thing that it will create is one big project to integrate these two search also rans. Anyone want to bet how long it lasts? I say 3 years.
