Here’s a video on Yahoo’s CEO Carol Bartz explaining about the new deal with Microsoft.

Video after the jump!

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After 18 months of on/off offers, withdrawals, contacts and discussions, Microsoft and Yahoo have announced a ten-year agreement that will create a new number two in the Internet search market behind Google.

The deal strengthens Yahoo (for the present) and gives Microsoft a better position to gain a healthy share of the advertising revenues. The agreement is good for advertisers, innovation in search technologies and ultimately the consumer.

Below is the full transcript of Yahoo(Carol Bartz)  & Microsoft (Steve Ballmer) with the journalist on a conference call take took place on July 29, 2009.

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Microsoft has launched its new search engine called Bing (www.bing.com) to replace Live Search.

Still in Beta, users typing in www.live.com or searching at MSN.com will be diverted to Bing.

Know as a “decision engine”, according to the largest software maker in the world, you can use it to search the web, news, images and the best part is xRank which shows you the top searches.

Personally, I tested out Bling and it does not seem to impress me. What about you?

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I am sure you have seen people who are that lazy to lift their fingers and find that simple answers or information via Google.

EDUCATE THEM!!!

It is time to tell them that they can find the info they need by doing a simple Google Search.

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Under pressure from regulators, policymakers and privacy advocates around the world, Google said late Monday that it would further tighten its data retention policy. In its official blog, the company said it would “anonymize” search records after 9 months, rather than the current 18 months.

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Looks like Singapore is ahead of South East Asia countries including Malaysia with the launch of its new local search engine-Rednano.

Rednano is Singapore’s first local search and directory engine.

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