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Microsoft  (news, site) and Yahoo! (news, site) have been given the final approval by the EU to go ahead with a partnership that was agreed to last July. That partnership will see Yahoo’s search results being powered by Microsoft Bing for a cut of the ad revenues.

The deal has also been agreed to by US regulators without any conditions seeing the two take control of 30% of the search market -- the other 70% of which is controlled by Google.

A joint statement by the companies said: "While Microsoft will provide the underlying platform, both companies will continue to create different, compelling and evolving experiences, competing for audience, engagement and clicks."

By combining the two, Yahoo! will take over the search advertising work of Microsoft saving them the cost of running huge spidering centers, while Bing will provide all the links for every Yahoo search.

Like all such deals at the moment, the original agreement announced last summer is designed to cut costs for both companies and increase revenue share, which should see some improvement as the combined networks should be considerably more attractive to advertisers than they would be operating on their own.

Microsoft and Yahoo will begin the transition of algorithmic search and have set a goal of completing that effort in at least the United States by the end of 2010.

The companies also said they hope to make significant progress transitioning U.S. advertisers and publishers prior to the 2010 holiday season, but may wait until 2011 if they determine that the transition will be more effective after the holiday season.

All global customers and partners are expected to be transitioned by early 2012.
 

Why stick with one search engine, when you can get the best of both worlds? New service, Gune, takes this approach to mobile search.

After some recent compliance moves on Bing’s part, it appears that Microsoft (news, site) may care more about protecting your privacy than Google.

15 days into the new decade and I'm still reflexively writing 2009 on my checks. Yes, there are a few holiday cobwebs left, but we're getting warmed up again. Nevertheless, TGI-the-2nd-F of 2010.

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As we head into the final weeks of 2009, let’s look back at the year in web publishing. See how some trends emerge and others merely fade away.

Social media moves so fast, it's hard to keep up. Here are the week's top stories in scan-friendly format:

• Bing Joins iPhone App Store Ranks With New App
• Twitter Begins Trials of Business-focused Features
• Microsoft Pulls Micro-Blogging Product In China
• Coming Soon: Reply To Facebook Messages Via Email

The holiday season has not slowed down the web publishing world. In fact, they might be looking to pick up speed as the year comes to a close. From Google to Bing to YouTube, it seems that things are heating up, like a Thanksgiving turkey.

For months, both Google and Microsoft have been vying for Twitter’s (news, site) affection in an attempt to gain access to today’s Holy Grail of real-time information.

Yesterday it seemed the war between Tweedledee and Tweedledum was finally over as Microsoft announced a deal to bring not only tweets to Bing, but Facebook data as well. Of course, just a few short hours later, Google declared a Twitter deal of their own.

Meaning? It. Just. Got. Interesting.

As Microsoft's Bing (news, site) tries to build up its brand, it jumps ship to those pesky Apple formats in the aim for universal appeal.

Why are Firefox, GoogleMail and Apache such successful products? One, grossly simplistic answer is that they are not owned by Microsoft. Which is why it's just "Bing" and not "Microsoft Bing" or "Bing [click here to read license agreement before use]".

Bing, while still in its early stages of life, has done pretty well gaining interest and usage from the online community. However, Microsoft wants to get away from just the desktop browser space and is spreading itself in all directions to get more people using the search service.

So, now we have a Bing SDK in Cocoa Framework for Mac and iPhone developers, allowing them to easily add Bing search functions to their apps.

Now, while there may be some Mac developers out there who would consider using a Microsoft product as some sort of deal with the Devil, there are plenty of others who will appreciate that Bing is fresh and new compared to older search properties like Yahoo! and Google.

Licensed under the Microsoft open source Public License, it offers searching on Web, video, image and phonebook data. Searches can be handled synchronously or asynchronously.

The SDK is available on CodePlex and is approaching nearly 1,000 downloads after a couple of days.

As many a blog entry will reiterate, as of late, there’s been a good amount of buzz around the launch of Microsoft’s new Bing search engine.

Moreover, there’s been a decent amount of speculation on what the growing popularity of Bing -- along with their recent agreement with Yahoo -- will mean in regards to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) practices.  As with any buzz in the online world, many marketing blogs, including Forrester, began to postulate what effect Bing will have on SEO, even before it officially launched.

Bada boom, bada bing!

That’s how quickly things seem to happen in the webverse anyway, the search engine avenue being no exception. Accordingly, recently there have been rumors backed by heavy advertising dollars that Microsoft (news, site) plans to release a search engine called "Bing."

As is inevitable whenever big names put out new solutions, "Bing" is already being compared to offerings from other big names. In fact, much like the ongoing Mac vs. PC battle, we’re seeing Microsoft's new offering propositioned as competition for the biggest name.

You may think they are coming from behind, but if the product demonstrations that occurred at Lotusphere are any indication, IBM is in the fast lane of Web 2.0 tools and technologies and must have been there for while.

From updates to Lotus Notes and Domino, to new versions of Lotus Connections and new products like Lotus Mashups, IBM is approaching Web 2.0 not from a cool technology standpoint – but from a business needs standpoint.