Like a soap opera, things are heating up between Microsoft and Yahoo, complete with threats, machinations, and denials. As things stand right now, I see five possible outcomes.
1) Nothing happens.Very unlikely. Yahoo’s numbers aren’t there right now, and an attempt to stay the course would create considerable unrest amongst Yahoo shareholders.
2) Microsoft purchases Yahoo in […]

AOL Stalker:
Based upon the data gained from AOL’s data breech, this is probably the best analysis of click distribution I’ve seen so far.
While the data is specific to AOL, it likely has a high correlation coefficient with Google as Big G powers AOL’s search.
The author points out that nearly half of the searches do not […]

John Battelle’s Searchblog
John reports on the latest search marketshare numbers.
Short version: Google and Ask gained ground; everyone else lost ground.

John Battelle’s Searchblog
Google has quietly dropped the “making AOL content more accessible to Google web crawlers” comment from its agreement with AOL.

Media Post
The Kelsey Group sees Pay Per Call reaching $3.7 billion by 2010.
The article also quotes LCG/Apogee Search CEO Bill Leake.

John Battelle’s Searchblog
John interveiws Marissa Mayer (on her vacation, no less) to get further clarification on the AOL-Google deal.

i, cringely
Robert X. Cringely weighs in on the Goolge/AOL deal, and why Microsoft lost.
Most interestingly, he discusses Google’s AdWords optimization service, suggests that they aren’t very good at it, and mentions how disturbing this is. I think the actual issue is something different.
The fact is that that the motivations for Google are different than those […]

GoogleBlog
Google offers some clarification on the AOL deal. John Battelle offers his opinion.

CNNMoney
It’s now official: Google has bought their way into a long term deal to provide search services to AOL.

New York Times
More and more detail on the AOL-Google deal is coming to light. Latest news is that Google will place graphical ads for AOL on the Google.com properties. These will take the same shape as Google AdWords, apparently.