Yahoo!Soft? - Early reports say Microsoft to Buy Yahoo! for $44 bil

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Microsoft has reportedly made a bid to buy the struggling Yahoo! for $44 billion. Whether this goes through or not, this is the first serious attempt at formal consolidation among the major search engines.

Unlike the coming Google/Double-click merger, it's likely that average internet users will readily assume that this merger will have a huge affect on them. My guess is that, if this goes forward, this merger will get more anti-trust attention than Google's.