A word about the Microsoft deal
July 29, 2009 on 10:28 am | In News | 15 Comments
As many of you may have already heard today, Yahoo! signed a major search deal with Microsoft.
Under the terms, Microsoft will become the search engine behind Yahoo! and we will become the worldwide exclusive relationship sales force for both companies’ premium search advertisers.
You can read more about what this means to you as a Yahoo! user over on our corporate blog, Yodel Anecdotal.
Keep in mind that this deal is limited to our search engine features, and will not affect other products like Yahoo! Messenger. As you know, we already interoperate with Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger, allowing you to chat via Yahoo! with your friends that use Windows Live.
Below is a brief video from our CEO, Carol Bartz, about today’s news. You can also visit this special site that was set up to further explain the search partnership.
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
Now that Microsoft has been brought in with a deal for the search engine, can Yahoo please, please, please clean up chat and the bots? The situation is horrible!
Comment by Tim — July 29, 2009 #
Ms CEO misses the entire point and purpose of most Yahoo “visitors”. CHAT! From a user standpoint, NOTHING is more important. A new search scheme is not even in the running. CHAT is the name of the game. Maybe MS can help totally eliminate the largest porn business on the planet and get them OUT of chat rooms.
Comment by seescape2 — July 29, 2009 #
Changes homepage to google now.
Comment by yolarrydabomb — July 29, 2009 #
I have used Bing a few times, and I’m overall satisfied with it. I still prefer Google, though.
@seescape2 – Chat doesn’t provide much, if any, revenue. Search places contextual advertisements that do. I think this is a bigger win for Yahoo! than it is for Microsoft since the ad business is what actually makes money.
And what advantage is it to Microsoft’s to eliminate an adult entertainment business?
Comment by Fake Al Gore — July 30, 2009 #
Well done. Yahoo! search was fine without the “Bing” crap. Bing plain out sucks. It’s just Live Search rebranded. Big Fail. I use google anyways.
Comment by Cliff — July 30, 2009 #
I have been reading the news @ YAhoo! regarding the situation b/ Microsoft & Yahoo! for quite some time.
I believe that nothing but the best will become of the deal reached.
I have enjoyed the services of Yahoo for a long time.
As a Computer Information System graduate this news is great.
Microsoft seems to be everywhere from operating systems to MP3 players.
Best of luck to the both of you guys @ Yahoo! & Microsoft.
Take care!
Comment by elBorincanodeNYC — July 31, 2009 #
@Cliff – Bing is actually a collection of some new and some revamped search technologies. It is not just a rebranding of Live Search. The most notable inclusion is the bar on the left-hand side of search results based on technology Microsoft acquired from Powerset.
Again, I’m primarily a Google user for search, but I just had to correct this obvious blunder.
Comment by Fake Al Gore — July 31, 2009 #
Please please do something about the clones and bots in chatrooms.I use Older and Wiser and being elderly I do not appreciate the foul language used by the clones and the bots are pests. What is the purpose of the codes? if they are designed to keep undesirables out the chatrooms ……news flash!!! they aint working.
Comment by Neffitti — July 31, 2009 #
“Keep in mind that this deal is limited to our search engine features, and will not affect other products like Yahoo! Messenger”
and for how long it will last this statement?
Comment by Mike — August 1, 2009 #
I THINK THIS A VERY GOOD IDEA, BUT THIS WOULD BENEFIT YAHOO MORE THAN IT WOULD MICROSOFT. ADVERTISEMENT IS THE ONE MAKING THE MONEY.
Comment by pineywood13 — August 3, 2009 #
Yahoo chat Sucks with all the Booter & Bots…….Microsoft can make money from chat…….Charge a fee per month and have a room monitor to kick rude people out of the rooms.
MSN had chat rooms but they were pretty boring but with yahoo chat that will change for microsoft……Yahoo chat is has a lot of people chatting everyday i hope they reconfigure yahoo messenger so its UNbootable.
One of Bill Gates computer techs should know how to make a messenger that UNbootable not like yahoo who haven’t got a clue.
Comment by IndianG — August 4, 2009 #
Fake Al Gore,
Yahoo chat does not bring them any money because they just haven’t focused on making it lucrative. They are going after wrong things. Google is already the leader in search and people are used to use google. Hack people use the word ‘googling’ more than the word ’searching’. Why waste resources on something that you know is not going help you gain much market share.
In my opinion, yahoo should really crosslink their wide array of services to provide the users richer experience. And when they use all yahoo services more, yahoo will automatically get more advertises.
Instead of those ads at the bottom of chat rooms, they should really crosslink any chat words people type in chat rooms. If someone is talking about a movie in the chat room, that movie name is automatically underscored and when you hover mouse on it, you see showtimes, ect. Yahoo already has experimental cross linking in yahoo mail. They really need to spread this crosslinking in all of their services, something like wikipedia has. This way they can even increase hits on yahoo search. Not that many people use yahoo search webpage to look for things. But when they cross link search results in email, chat, yahoo finance message boards, ect they can dramatically increase yahoo search hits. So the idea is to make people use yahoo search indirectly.
I wish I was on yahoo’s strategic planning team, I like yahoo and don’t want them to go the wrong way.
Comment by Saurabh — August 5, 2009 #
well i tell you barnacle bill’s who whine about yahoo chat. i think that yahoo can spare alot of expense and time by just shutting chatrooms down indefinatly
we booters do not like the idea that some child molester in chatrooms waiting his chance to do his evil pedophile deeds on some poor innocent 12 yr old posing as a 31 year old.
so we think that all peeps are freaks and pervs and will continue to update booters faster than yahoo can patch them.
yahoo your wasting your time. close chat down permanently. save ur time and money. booters will get better and better as u patch them. exploits are endless.
Comment by menineteenhundred — August 7, 2009 #
Booters aren’t the issue, as there are alternative measures to protect against them. But the bots… sheesh. Yes, there are other methods for users to “ignore” them but it’s a real pain in the behind. There are real & simple things Yahoo could implement to fix the issue but they just straight out refuse to do it.
Just get rid of the stupid CAPTCHA feature in chat because it is 110% useless against the bots.
Comment by Marty Stewart — August 9, 2009 #
I got a chance to read Carol’s blog on Yahoo/Microsoft deal and seems like she might be onto something. Like I was saying Yahoo should focus on their wide array of services and cross link them because there is no way they can gain much market share over google in search, she seems to be planning along the same line. She says Yahoo is going to give search engine to Microsoft so that they can focus more on other Yahoo services.
The problem with yahoo chat rooms is a chicken and egg thing. They don’t want to put any resources in it because it doesn’t make them any money, and unless they put some resources into it, they cannot make it lucrative. I am completely fine if they add some more advertising in it before fixing bugs, then once they start making some money they can start fixing bugs.
Comment by Saurabh — August 12, 2009 #