Well, it's done. Yahoo is now officially out of the Search Engine business. The monster company, the one company that was worth billions after it's first day of public release, is now gone. Gobbled up by the Mega-Corp that is known as Microsoft. Yahoo CEO, Carol Bartz, was quoted in saying that Yahoo "...is not a search company...", could have fooled me. I mean, isn't that where they started? Granted Yahoo had sprouted roots in other areas, but who honestly uses Yahoo Mail anymore? Maybe their Instant messenger is a bit popular, but they still have to compete with AIM, which is a much more well known and respected name. As it stands, seems like Yahoo just turned themselves into another AOL-ish type company. Claiming that content rich pages and information is their bread-n-butter. But alas, Yahoo search is gone, replaced with the new "decision engine" known as Bing. This daring move by Microsoft has catapulted their search engine into the # 2 position amongst all search engines. Bing is now in search combat with Google...ding ding! All-in-all I think this was a major mistake for Yahoo. In my eyes, the fact that Microsoft was branching out into the Search Engine world, to compete against Yahoo and Google should have given them a clue that "Search Engines" are the thing now. I don't know if I will ever understand their decision to sell off their Search Engine to MS. They basically committed virtual suicide for money...at least that's how I see it.

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