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Yahoo! and MSN Partnership FAQ

What is the deal all about?

On Wednesday, Yahoo! and Microsoft reached a global agreement to combine their respective search and search advertising businesses. Simply put, Microsoft will power search and Yahoo! will become the exclusive worldwide relationship sales force for both companies’. Instead of a full merger, the companies will share search revenue, with Yahoo! getting 88% of the revenue generated from its sites in the first five years of the agreement.