Microsoft and Yahoo agree to enhance their search engines

http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2006/1/12/2480 Microsoft and Yahoo agree to enhance their search engines eWeek is reporting that Microsoft may have some interest in Yahoo after all, but it has nothing to do with buyouts. Rather, researchers at Microsoft have been chatting with Yahoo about how to improve online searching capabilities. Essentially, Microsoft and Yahoo have put their heads together and concluded that they must make their search engines, at the very least, comparable to Google. Wow. Good thing they spoke with one another! Microsoft Research Asia director Harry Shum had the following to say about the special conversation: "There is something called search relevance that Google has been ahead of most competitors in, but the gap is closing. And Yahoo claims statistically that this difference does not even exist anymore between Google and Yahoo. MSN, with a lot of help from MSR [Microsoft Research] is closing the gap like crazy. We will be catching up with them in a matter of months. And something will be there. But that is only one problem—one very tough problem, however." Microsoft, Yahoo Talk Search Microsoft, Yahoo Talk Search By Darryl K. Taft January 12, 2006 Despite Microsoft Corp.'s denial of rumors that the software giant may have interest in Yahoo Inc., the companies have been talking—at least on a research level. Harry Shum, the Beijing-based managing director of Microsoft Research Asia, said he has recently spoken with the head of Yahoo Research about the issue of enhancing search capabilities and competing with Google. At the start of the year, there were rumors that Microsoft had made a bid to buy Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo. The Los Angeles Times, citing anonymous sources, said Microsoft allegedly had offered $80 billion for the company, an amount Yahoo rebuffed as too low. A week later, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer flat-out denied in a published interview that Microsoft had made an offer to buy Yahoo Online Free Recipes Famous Quotes Gatlinburg Cabins Christmas Recipes Healthy Chicken Recipes Cute Quotes Sales Books Chicken Recipes Wes Zimmerman Fireplace Mantles recipes Fast Cash Payday Loan Center Recipes Famous Quotes Debt Consolidation Mortgage Chicken Recipes Love Quotes sell home Auto Insurance Funny Jokes - Bio-Optic Organized Knowledge device, trade named: BOOK Chicken Recipes Quotes Diabetic Recipes Funny Jokes

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