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A year ago,it was reported that the two companies were in talks about a merger, but those conversations were dismissed as rumors and speculation. According The Wall Street Journal, executives at Microsoft and Yahoo are taking a fresh look at a merger of the two companies.

It is also being reported that Microsoft has offered $50 Billion to Yahoo in an effort to acquire the company.

Yahoo and Microsoft have a rich past together, as Yahoo! Search Marketing / Overture supplied MSN Search with sponsored listings for years.

If Microsoft were to make a deal with Yahoo, the WSJ thinks there could be some massive upheaval in Yahoo’s executive ranks.

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It is a general problem for search engines that a lot of web page content is repetitive: navigation menus, headings, ads etc.The Yahoo! Search Blog has announced the birth of a new tag that webmasters may include in their templates: the robots-nocontent tag.

Webmasters can now mark parts of a page with a ‘robots-nocontent’ tag which will indicate to our crawler what parts of a page are unrelated to the main content and are only useful for visitors. We won’t use the terms contained in these special tagged sections as information for finding the page or for the abstract in the search results

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