Reports: Microsoft-Yahoo deal to come in next 24 hours

For more than a year now, rumors of a potential deal between Microsoft and Yahoo have ebbed and flowed. And it looks like the denouement of this epic tale may finally be upon us. A search and advertising deal between the two tech giants is expected to be announced within the next 24 hours, according to All Things D's Kara Swisher, who cites multiple unnamed sources.

I am not even sure how well this deal is going to work, or if its gonna make much of a difference to Google's dominant market share in search. Will Micro-Hoo be able to do better against Google when they failed to make much of a headway seperately against Google? We will see I guess.

Leaked terms of the deal, from All Things Digital’s Kara Swisher
# 1. According to several sources close to the situation, as part of a deal–in which Yahoo (YHOO) would sell search advertising for its sites and some of Microsoft’s, while Microsoft search technology would power it–Yahoo would get to keep pretty much all the revenue and even more for the next three years.

# 2. Sources said that in the first two years of the deal, Yahoo would keep 110 percent of all revenue. And, in the third, Yahoo would get 90 percent.
That could represent many billions of dollars, since Yahoo will be selling for both companies.

# 3. For Microsoft, the payment will–within four years–allow the software giant to become the de facto No. 2 search technology player after Google (GOOG).
http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090728/yahoo-to-get-110-percent-of-search-revenue-in-first-two-years-of-deal-with-microsoft/?reflink=ATD_yahoo_ticker

What was the last deal Yahoo's then CEO, Jerry Yang rejected? Wasn't that valued at some $44.6 Billion?

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