MicroHOO or YaSOFT?

Microsoft at last convinced Yahoo to share control of the Internet's second most popular search engine and join it in a dishearten fighting — taking on the overwhelming dominance of Google in the online advertising market.

A 10-year deal announced Wednesday gives Microsoft its best shot yet to show its new search technology, Bing, is as good as or better than Google's. Microsoft also hopes to use Yahoo to divert sales from Google, which generates more than $20 billion a year from ads.