In the end, Microsoft is almost surely going to end up owning Yahoo's search business. That's the only conclusion I can come up with, having spent months talking to Microsoft's senior leadership for a recent story (
http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/20/tech..._0707.fortune/) on the company. And even what does seem like erratic behavior on the part of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer et al points toward that inevitable conclusion.
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*Source: CNNMoney (
http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/03/tech...y_technology)*
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