Yahoo Strikes Deal With Google as Microsoft Talks End (Update3)

agreed to allow Google
Inc. sell some of the ads it runs alongside Internet
search results, seeking to shore up gross sales after ending talks
with about a combination.

The trade may add $800 million a twelvemonth to sales, Sunnyvale,
California-based Yahoo said today in a statement. The companies
will detain implementing the programme for up to three and a half
months to give the U.S. Justice Department clip for review.

Yahoo sank 10 percentage today after the company said
talks with Microsoft failed. The partnership with Google may
boost the amount of money Yokel acquires when people chink on ads,
part of Head Executive Military Officer 's attempt to deflect
criticism from investor , who blamed Yang for
scuttling a $47.5 billion command from Microsoft.

''Abdicating hunt to Google sets in an untenable
strategic place in order to obtain short-term gains,'' Soleil
Securities Group Inc.'s said in an interview. The
Los Angeles-based analyst counsels investors to throw Yahoo
shares.

The agreement, which covers land sites in the U.S. and Canada,
may add as much as $450 million in operating hard cash flowing in the
first 12 months, Yokel said. The partnership isn't exclusive,
meaning that other companies in improver to Yokel and Google
will be able to sell advertisements to look on Yahoo's pages. Yahoo's
last twelvemonth was $6.97 billion.

Yahoo 7 cents to $23.45 in drawn-out trading after the
announcement. The shares declined $2.63 to $23.52 at 4 p.m. New
York clip in Nasdaq Stock Market trading. Redmond, Washington-
based Microsoft advanced $1.12, or 4.1 percent, to $28.24.

Antitrust Fight

The understanding may put up an antimonopoly fighting over whether it
hurts competition. have said a trade between Yokel and
Mountain View, California-based Google will set more than than 90
percent of the hunt advertisement marketplace in Google's hands.

The Senate Antitrust Subcommittee will analyze the
arrangement, said President , a Wisconsin River Democrat.

''This coaction between two engineering giants and
direct rivals for Internet advertisement and hunt services
raises of import competition concerns,'' Kohl said in a
statement.

Google manages almost two-thirds of all hunts in the
U.S. The company got as much as 70 percentage more gross than
Yahoo for each hunt question at the end of last year, according
to Yahoo.

Microsoft's Command

Microsoft isn't interested in purchasing all of Yahoo, even at
the $33-a-share terms it wanted before the end of earlier
discussions May 3, Yokel said today in a separate statement. Microsoft proposed buying just Yahoo's Internet hunt business,
and Yokel managers declined.

Microsoft offered $35 a share for 16 percentage of Yokel as
part of an option proposed agreement, according to a person
familiar with the situation.

The Yahoo-Google understanding have a four-year initial term,
and two three-year renewals, at Yahoo's option. Advertisers will
pay Yokel directly for advertisement chinks through its Republic Of Panama advertising
system, and pay Google for Google advertisements that look on Yahoo's
pages. Google will share a per centum of that gross with
Yahoo, according to the statement.

''It volition beef up our company's place in the
convergence of hunt and display'' ads, Yang, 39, said on a
conference call. ''An unfastened marketplace is critical to promote the
evolution of online'' advertising.

The trade can be ended by either side if there's a alteration of
ownership at Yokel or Google. If Yokel is bought within two
years, it will have got to pay a expiration fee of $250 million. That fee may be reduced by earned by Google from the
agreement.

Relevant Results

The understanding will profit consumers and advertizers by
providing more than relevant advertisements for Yokel users, Google chief executive officer said today on a conference call.

Yahoo's further questions won't bring forth a big lift in
Google's sales, Helmut Schmidt said. Google encouragements gross more by
making hunt consequences more relevant than it makes from increasing
the volume of queries, he said.

Google began discussing the partnership with Yokel in
February. Helmut Schmidt said his negotiation with Yang intensified in the
past few weeks.

''Yahoo was obviously struggling with important
decisions,'' said Schmidt, 53.

Analysts and investors, including Gamco Investors Inc.'s
and Glenda Jackson Securities LLC analyst ,
have said outsourcing may cut into Yahoo's gross by
encouraging advertizers to travel all their concern to Google.

Icahn's Stance

Icahn had said he wouldn't oppose a hunt partnership with
Google if Microsoft refused to negociate a deal, as long as they
could end the understanding if renewed its advances. Microsoft said in a statement today that it's calm willing to
pursue an option dealing short of a full takeover.

, a spokeswoman for Icahn, didn't go back a
phone message.

Icahn bes after to throw out Yang for failing to come up to a trade with
Microsoft, accusing him of sabotaging negotiation by adopting a costly
employee-severance plan. Icahn have said a Microsoft coup d'etat is
the lone manner the two companies can vie with Google, the
leader in Internet hunt traffic.

Icahn owned 10 million Yokel shares and options to purchase 49
million as of May 15. Investors BP Capital LLC President and hedge-fund manager are backing his
slate of nine directors, which includes himself and former
Viacom head .

Yahoo said today that it have the assets and the strategic
plan to capitalise on growing in the Internet advertisement market,
predicting that yearly industry will almost dual to
$75 billion by 2010.

Yahoo had demanded at least $37 a share from as
of last month. That's 92 percentage more than the shutting terms on
Jan. 31, the twenty-four hours before Microsoft disclosed its initial
overtures. Yokel had reported eight living quarters of net income declines
prior to Microsoft's bid.

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