The deal between Yahoo and Microsoft that was announced last Wednesday, signaled the change in the search engine market.

Prior to the deal, Yahoo had 30 percent of US users, while Bing had only more or less 10 percent and the other part was almost owned by Google. But with this deal, it seems that Yahoo’s market share will fell to zero percent while that of Microsoft’s Bing will jump up to 30%.

What’s with the deal?

Well… According to the report, Microsoft will now power Yahoo’s searches with its new revamped search engine called “Bing”. Then Yahoo’s obligation is to monetize the searches.

Actually, I am currently wondering if it’s a good deal to Yahoo!. For me the better deal was when Microsoft offered Billions of money for the ownership of the entire Yahoo company or part of it.

But did you know that “Bing” is the new search engine of Microsoft?

Yes! Microsoft is serious in challenging Google search engine. First, they have MSN search engine. But when they realized that MSN is too bad to compete with Google search engine, they changed it to “Live Search”. But “Live Search” failed.

So, Microsoft tried to buy the Yahoo Search Engine hoping that by combining the Live and Yahoo search engines, they might produce a better search engine that would finally compete with Google search engine. But Yahoo did not give in to what Microsoft wanted.

Now, new generation of Microsoft search engine has been launched…. I think, the term “launch” should not be used here because what Microsoft did was just introduce their new search engines but it was not really launched. You can check the URL www.bing.com and you’ll find nothing but just an announcement “Bing … Coming Soon!“.