Yahoo Deepens Friendship with Facebook

December 2, 2009
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/02/yahoo-deepens-friendship-with-facebook/?ref=technology

In this article by Brad Stone he talks about the deepened partnership between Face book and yahoo. Beginning some time in the first half of 2010 they will start crossing their streams which is the flow of real-time updates from a person’s sphere of online contacts. There is really no money involved but it is a strategic move designed give each company a broader reach of users.

This is very important and it is also funny that there is no money involved because usually these types of deals generally involve some sort of profit making. As it relates to us users it is a very important deal and I feel this sort of hurts google in its attempt to dominate the search engine business. More users are using facebook than ever before and this might make some users who use google switch to yahoo instead.