Yahoo teams with McAfee for safer Search - SearchScan
As Microsoft walked away from their $44 million bid, Jerry Young is desperate to make the shareholders happy. Today Yahoo announced their partership with McAfee to launch SearchScan, a safer internet search for the surfers.
Currently Yahoo has 21% share of the search market, whereas search gaint Google has 60%. Yahoo is expecting integrating McAfee’s SiteAdvisor in their searching service will help users to mitigate their worries about inadvertently clicking on sites that can infect or damage system.
In the beginning, this search service will be available to Web users in the U.S., Canada, UK, France, Italy, Germany, Australia, New Zealand and Spain.
The partnership comes in the wake of Yahoo shares dropping 15 percent only two days after Microsoft withdrew its bid for the company.
Google has same kind of service, they started flagging risky search results in February, 2007.
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