My Way News - Yahoo Teams Up With HP on Search Engine: "SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) said Thursday it has struck a deal with Hewlett-Packard Co. to plant its Internet search engine on millions of computers, the latest volley in a high-stakes battle with Google Inc. (GOOG) and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)
The alliance unites two companies trying to catch up to the longtime leaders in their respective fields.
Sunnyvale-based Yahoo ranks a distant second to Google in the lucrative search engine market while Palo Alto-based HP continues to trail Dell Inc. (DELL) in personal computer sales despite recent gains.
The agreement requires HP to set up its desktop and notebook PCs in North America so Yahoo's search engine appears in the toolbar of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7, the next version of the Web's most widely used browser. Yahoo is hoping that the tool bar will generate more search requests, providing a springboard for more ad revenue."
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