Notable Tweets on Microsoft Yahoo

Search engine showdown.

clipped from www.searchenginejournal.com A few hours after the first news coverage on the upcoming announcement about the Yahoo-Microsoft search deal, it started to generate substantial buzz on Twitter. If you search “Microsoft Yahoo” on Twitter Search, you’ll get tremendous number of Tweets, with updates coming in every second. Some of the notable Tweets related to the Yahoo-Microsoft Deal:

Yahoo or Microsoft set to do the morning after walk of shame

clipped from gawker.com Yahoo, Microsoft To Go Steady Tomorrow: Report After a failed romance last year, tears; then fighting and the nastiness; followed by a slow, painful reconciliation starting earlier this year. Yahoo and Microsoft have finally — finally — united with an advertising deal, All Things D reports. The pact will be announced within 24 hours, reporter Kara Swisher writes. It's been a long time coming. Given the two companies' stock performance (see chart below), and the level of, uh, charisma their CEOs posses, it's no wonder it took this long to screw up the courage to take on Google together. Should be entertaining to watch. This sounds like a "nobody's ugly at 2:00 a.m." situation. I'm just wondering who'll be doing a "walk of shame" when it's all over.

Ugliness is written all over this.