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Yahoo! is showing Bing results 25% of the time. Searching at Yahoo! will show the Yahoo! logo, but will give you Bing search results. The merger is in full swing. Webmaster tools at Bing are also changing and it’s hoped that some missing features will be replaced with some Yahoo! technology.

Yahoo! Search Blog » Blog Archive » Yahoo! Begins Testing with Microsoft

Yahoo! is plunging headfirst into having Microsoft’s Bing take over their search services. Yahoo! ad programs and webmaster tools will be transisitioning to Microsoft’s services. Are we ready? Yup. This is no surprise. Yahoo! has been falling flat on their face for some time now.

Yahoo! Transition Center – Home

News Corp wants Google to pay for indexing their news content and serving it on Google news pages. Google says, tell us not to index it and we won’t. News Corp, says you took it now pay. You get the argument from there. It’s the War of Standstill Hill.
Now Microsoft sees an opportunity and offers to pay News Corp to index their material if they do de-list themselves from Google. Microsoft’s Bing would be the only source of News Corp information?
Do you think that information should only be available if you search multiple sources? Is this the start of a slippery slope?
There’s a discussion of the good and bad of this at Microsoft and News Corp To Consider Web Pact?