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Before Yahoo-Microsoft Deal Terms Are Unveiled, Let's Go to the Videotape From the Last One

Kara Swisher in News on July 28, 2009 at 6:02 pm PT

As BoomTown reported earlier today, Yahoo and Microsoft have struck a search and online advertising partnership that sources said will be announced tomorrow. But it is eminently instructive to look at the deal that Microsoft had offered Yahoo almost exactly a year ago, which was rejected by Yahoo in favor of a competing bid by Google. The Yahoogle deal, of course, failed, after regulators looked askance at a partnership of the No. 1 and No. 2 search players. The new deal between Yahoo and Microsoft, according to sources, certainly seems a lot smaller than the one offered last June, although there might be a surprise yet to come.