Microsoft-Yahoo search and advertising deal will be announced in the next 24 hours — According to multiple sources in touch with Rupert Murdoch’s one-woman Yahoo reporting division, Kara Swisher, “The online search and advertising deal between Microsoft and Yahoo has been struck and will be announced within the next 24 hours.” The two companies have been perennial second-placers behind Google for years. The partnership will allegedly be a straight revenue share with no up-front payment. Microsoft’s lovely-to-look-at new search engine Bing will become the default search engine (or “decision engine,” as they prefer to call it) on Yahoo. That gives Bing 30 percent of the search-or-decision-engine market. Google has 65 percent. I’ll write this all up again as a bullet list after the deal is confirmed, if only for myself.
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Online dating doesn’t necessarily lead to real-world marriage — Sites like EHarmony and Match.com claim to bring large numbers of brides and grooms together. A Pew Internet & American Life Project study reported that three million Americans had entered into “long-term relationships or marriages” with people they met on dating sites. But Pew didn’t state how many actual marriages were accounted for. The Wall Street Journal picks apart the over-zealous self-reported success stats flogged by dating sites.
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