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Yahoo! begins ad handover to Microsoft

The Bingification of Yahoo! took another step forward Tuesday, when the transition of advertisers' search-based campaigns from Yahoo! Search Marketing to Microsoft adCenter got underway. "A combined Bing and Yahoo! will provide advertisers with a competitive alternative in search advertising, enabling advertisers to reach more …

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And so..

And so begins Yahoo's march towards mediocrity and irrelevance.

That said, I suppose there's a valid argument they've been mediocre and irrelevant for years. I think the only time I use anything even related tangentially to Yahoo is the iPhone weather app which gets its data from yahoo. Since the beeb revamped their mobile website I tend to use that more (for weather results over the native iphone app) as it usually has better, more accurate and more detailed info.

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No! Yahoo! are! already! mediocre!

Why else would they have the need to push their fscking toolbar like malware; bundled as a preseleted install with applications that don't need it and are nothing to do with it.

Parasites

bingification... not me...

I only click that bing thing by mistake, and when i do, i back out or shut down the page so it hopefully doesn't count my acts as some loyal bing user. I then re-run my query in Google.

Go

Oh Well

I did not use it much anyway But I do have to say that Yahoo mail is worse than Hotmail for crap attacks So i only use em when i dont want to be mail bombed at home...

but yep search is still scroogle and FF with ghostery and google sharing enabled HAHAHA

I tried Bing once it's amazing how much microshaft has to do with death and dr who

L8Rs

YaWho?

this->coat(get);

Paris Hilton

YAY!

Oh hold on, make that "meh" . . . .

Somehow...

... I still can't trust a search engine called "Bing"

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I! Could! Hardly!

read the article. The lack of exclamatory punctuation in the title caused me no little discomfort. Please be more careful in future Yahoo! related postings.

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I use bing all of the time....

because it powers Microsofts 'change your default search provider' service, hence, I use it once for every new IE8 installation.....sucks to be counted that way.

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