Google and Yahoo : hand-in-hand

The battle between browser is at hand between Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2.0. Behind those two product are Microsoft and Google, each one pushing its protégé. However lately Google plots with Yahoo! to play a little trick to Microsoft last-born child.

Indeed, Internet Explorer 7 default search engine is MSN Live Search which uses similar graphics to Google's. But when you know that most of users keeps the original homepage you can see why Google and Yahoo! are not so happy, especially knowing that Internet Explorer still have 80% of browser market share (and maybe even more with the new Vista coming up).

The challengers trick was to use a tool provided by Microsoft itself to costumize IE7. Thus Google and Yahoo get to insert their toolbar and homepage. To promote this operation Yahoo bought the "Internet Explorer" key words while Google is more circumspect.

Google Version
Yahoo! Version

War is declared!
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