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After 18 long months of on-again, off-again online business romance, Microsoft and Yahoo have final sealed the deal. The two announced today they will team up in an effort to chip away at Google's dominating lead in the search engine marketplace.

TechCrunch is reporting that Microsoft's decision engine Bing has decisively leapfrogged Yahoo! search traffic for the second time (post all the what's-a-Bing? search traffic just after launch). 12.9 percent, says StatCounter.com. What a horse race! It's like Mountain Dew battling it out with Dr. Pepper! Bing's boost is suspiciously close to the appearance of NYT tech-guy David Pogue's "Bing, the Imitator, Often Goes Google One Better," which says Bing can save you a few clicks. Yahoo! aside, mighty Google dipped about three percent, to 75 percent of search traffic. No benchmarks were provided on which surfaces more free HD pr0n.

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer looked more than a little surprised when a Hungarian man unleashed a verbal and egg-filled tirade today during a lecture at a Budapest university. And thanks to the wonder that is YouTube, you can witness the egging, amongst 608 other Steve Ballmer videos.

Apparently we're not the only ones with hope for Microsoft! Wired Magazine published an interview this morning with Mary Jo Foley, author of the cutely-titled book Microsoft 2.0, about the future of the company as Bill Gates leaves the day-to-day ops in the hands of Steve "I walked away from Yahoo" Ballmer.

Anyone want to start taking bets on how far Yahoo stocks will drop this morning? Double your winning by guessing the proper amount of time it takes for the descent to begin.

Yahoo has denied Microsoft something it wants, and Microsoft is none too happy. Today Yahoo Corporation officially rejected Microsoft's 45 billion dollar unsolicited buy-out offer as insufficient. 45 Billion?!? Every time we heard the offer, we thought to ourselves, that reporter must have made a mistake - he must've meant 45 million. Guess not. Even that astronomical number, according to Yahoo "significantly undervalues [the company's] worth."

A few months ago we switched back to Rhapsody music service from Yahoo!'s whatever-the-hell-it-was.

Economic downturn? Recession? Job losses? Really? Sure, Seattle's housing market finally cooled a bit, but listening to business news this morning you'd be excused for thinking all this talk about a bad economy is a crock of shit, at least here in Seattle.