RSSHP Selects Yahoo for Default Search
By Ed Oswald | Published September 29, 2006, 11:47 AM
Yahoo said Thursday it had signed an agreement with Hewlett-Packard to place a co-branded Internet toolbar on the company's computers in North America and Europe. In addition, Yahoo would be the default search portal when HP computers start shipping with Internet Explorer 7 later this year.
In addition to the positioning deals, all HP computer users would gain access to Yahoo e-mail, search, news and finance through co-branded pages. Effective immediately, the default homepage would be the Yahoo portal for computers shipped in Europe, while computers in the US would ship with the new Yahoo/HP co-branded toolbar.
Competition between Yahoo and Google has been fierce for placement in computers shipping the next-generation Internet Explorer browser. While Google has signed deals with Dell, Yahoo has responded by signing similar deals with Acer and now with HP.
"This relationship is an important component of Yahoos overall strategy to partner with leading global brands that will enable us to further extend our products and services to the worlds community of Internet users," Yahoo chief Dan Rosensweig said in a statement.
Yahoo is the second most used search engine behind Google, while HP is second to Dell in worldwide computer sales.
Great, more useless crap that nobody wants on their new PC.
My Vaio laptop was littered with this crap, trial versions of Office, Norton GoSlow Trial, Yahoo Toolbar, and loads of other unwanted crap.
Not that it matters, a quick format and re-install, and everything is gone...
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Should have picked Ask.com in my opinion.
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Bad choice.
They should have picked Google.
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Bro. Rat thought HP only put key loggers
on people's computers.
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The Computer Rodent
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"Work for HP /
Go to jail !"
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Now THIS is news folks!!!!
Rodent attempts to think!!!!
Rat quoted as saying "Bro. Rat thought..."
Fails miserably!
CBS & Fox debate whether to pick up absurdist screwball comedy for Fall season, but Fox ultimately declines saying: "Our standards may be low, but even We have standards!!" CBS still mulling...overheard saying something to the effect that "it was right up their..." (and then it became indistinguishable).
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