SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Yahoo Inc. is turning over some of its advertising
space to Internet search leader Google Inc. as part of a two-week test that
could lead to a broader partnership.
The experiment the companies announced Wednesday will allow Google to place
ads alongside about 3 percent of the queries made in the United States through
Yahoo's search engine -- the Internet's second largest after Google's.
Sunnyvale-based Yahoo said it hasn't decided to join the thousands of other
Web sites that rely on Google to handle most of the text-based advertising that
is tied to search requests or other online content.
Just the prospect of Yahoo working with the Internet's most profitable
company throws a new dynamic into its effort to extract a higher takeover bid
from its unsolicited suitor, Microsoft Corp.
Yahoo insists it's worth more than the initial bid of $44.6 billion, or $31
per share, that Microsoft made more than two months ago.
But Microsoft has held firm and threatened to lower the bid unless Yahoo
accepts it by April 26.
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