I think I'm tired of analyzing ever puff of air MS produces and
wishing we spent more time on honing the technology we use.

You can't lead by following MS and you can't innovate if your only
goal is to stop MS because you have no other focus.

- Brian

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Chris Thomas<[email protected]> wrote:
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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.
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> What do you guys think about the deal?
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