Microsoft and Yahoo team up: will it affect Google?

No this will not be.

I dont think that mocrosoft and yahoo together can affect google. Looking to the figures google alone has 64%of the market share in the search optimization busienss where as the combine figures of yahoo and microsoft is not more than 28% of the market share. So it seems difficult for both of them to hit gogle' share in the long run even as google will also prepare strategies to combat the big alliance of the two.But whatever it may be google is the best search engine. Here you can even get the details of an individual you want to know. so its a high end search engine which is difficult to compete with.

But all in all google has to keep an eye on the on this alliance and there spped to cover the market of google.

Google has captured allot of users and thus a is expected that Microsoft is going to get wind up.

Hi,

    No, Microsoft and Yahoo will not affect to Google. Google dissolve in blood of every person who use the internet search engine. 

i think the integration of this sort of magnitude will take years as the connection to be made at the back end will take a long time and this will give them problems, and both the companies have different priorities, so would not pose problem to Google.

Sumitra,

Google will continue to reign supreme & like Viktor said it might erode the yahoo brand. As of now Bing's platform for search advertisers is vastly inferior to that of Yahoo, so consolidating Bing and Yahoo on a single platform will reinforce the inferior experience compared to Google and could, in the long term, severely damage future revenues......

It is impertinent whether the deal will diminish google's grip on the market or not. The moot question to ask is if it will benefit the end user. Prima facie, it will not. Both MS and Yahoo are not yet free from their "catch up with Google at any cost" syndrome. They have little ability to think innovatively and get any stunning technology solutions to delight the customers, at least not known to people. Coming to your question, the visible signs clearly indicate that Google is not about to be beaten by commercial alliances. It will need the genius of some geek better than Larry and Sergei to break google's grip.

I think the deal will erode Yahoo's brand value.

I agree with Vishab here there is no way that they can give competition to google as already they have registered like anything in the minds of online users even a small query lands up with google search engine, so i guess it will be difficult for yahoo and Microsoft to upstage them from the top spot...either there should be some miracle happening or else there is no chance of Google getting affected here.

NO , I dont think MS & Yahoo deal going to effect Google anyway because google has its own customer base people like me who always prefer Google as a search engine.And more importantly Both MS & Yahoo still need to do lot of work to make search engine like google one. but yes they will give healthy competetion to google. Anyway that is good for customer.As a customer now we can expect more new changes in google.