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Deal Talk With Yahoo’s Schneider, Microsoft’s Mehdi: Adding Display ‘Is Like Boiling The Ocean’

Jul 29, 2009 5:00 PM

Yahoo’s Hilary Schneider and Microsoft’s Yusuf Mehdi spent months making today’s search and advertising deal happen—and they’ll spend countless hours making it work. In between, they spent some time explaining to paidContent’s Staci D. Kramer, David Kaplan and Joseph Tartakoff some gaps like display advertising; some details, including whether the…

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Posted In: Advertising, Search, Companies, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, bing, hilary schneider, yusuf mehdi

It’s Official: Yahoo-Microsoft Announce 10-Year Search/Ad Pact

Jul 29, 2009 7:51 AM

Updated: The 18-month Microsoft-Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) saga finally enters a productive phase (regulators willing) with a 10-year global search and advertising sales pact between the two companies. The deal, much of which has already been reported, was announced formally before U.S. markets opened. Yahoo estimates that the deal will improve…

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Posted In: Advertising, Search, Companies, Microsoft, Yahoo, bing, carol bartz, steve ballmer

Why Search Advertisers Might Like Bing Better Than Google

Jun 8, 2009 4:30 PM

It’s been less than two weeks since *Microsoft* finally unveiled the new and improved Bing search, but there’s already a consensus that the changes were mostly cosmetic. Our Joe Tartakoff found that the quality of Bing’s search results still didn’t measure up to Google’s, and TechCrunch reports that Bing’s leapfrog…

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Posted In: Advertising, Search, Technologies / Formats, Companies, Google, Microsoft, bing

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