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With res of Microsoft offering a $44.6 billion bid for buying Yahoo! (Business Line, February 02) is quite interesting in the technology space.

It is evident that Microsoft has finally decided to challenge Google with Yahoo’s legacy.

One really wonders how the new Microsoft-Yahoo merger is beginning to beat the Numero Uno Google in the search world.

By now, Googles’ share of the US Web Search market is estimated at 56 per cent by Nielsen Online, compared to 17 per cent for Yahoo and 13 per cent for Microsoft.

In this context, even the total calculus of both Yahoo and Microsoft is not coming to the estimated figure of Google.

The Microsoft buy-out has only proven the omnipresence of Google in the search world. Still, Google is the real winner here.

P. S. Saravana Durai e-mail

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