So what's left?
If Yahoo! doesn't have search (relabelling someone else's results really doesn't count), and are shutting down all these miscellaneous services, what is left? Do they have a low-profile gigantic ad network ala Google or what?
Later this week in the US and Canada, Yahoo! will begin moving its back-end search infrastructure to Microsoft's Bing platform. When using Yahoo! search, North American netizens will soon see a “Powered by Bing” logo at bottom of results pages. Last month, Yahoo! began some limited testing with Bingified search results, and …
is a shame Yahoo! have decided to ruin there business by being "powered by bing", cant see how they will survive now? if people want to search bing they will goto bing.com.
I can see people leaving in droves... soon after that the advertises will follow and then Yahoo will fail and will eventually become Ya-who?
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I was setting up a new laptop, and wanted to download Microsoft Security Essentials. It was a new laptop so the only browser installed was IE which defaulted to Bing for search. I figured why not, it is their software, and typed "Microsoft Security Essentials" into the text entry field, and hit Enter.
To my surprise there was not a single link to the software I wanted to download on the first page.
I jumped over to google.com, and the same search gave me a Microsoft page with a download link as the first search result.