Looks like Microsoft and Yahoo finally strike a deal. Even though it is not a merger, it is still a big deal. Yahoo is going to use Microsofts search technology (Bing?). Yahoo used Hadoop to take the webpages they crawled and indexed them. http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/hadoop/2008/02/yahoo-worlds-largest-production-hadoop.html
Yahoo was one of the biggest contributors to the project. What will their role be now? Because of the search deal Rasmus, the creator of the PHP language, might be leaving Yahoo, one of the biggest PHP shops. http://twitter.com/rasmus/status/2908526145 There are also the concenrs about less competiton in the search market. The MSFT - YHOO still needs to be approved by the Federal Trade Commission. What do you guys think about the deal? Chris
