Yahoo throws in the search towel

Yahoo’s Chief Financial Officer Susan Decker has admitted that Yahoo does not have aspirations to dominate Google in the field of search. Bloomberg News has reported that Decker said that Yahoo would “be very happy to maintain our market share”.

However even that maintain-the-status-quo aspiration may be optimistic. According to data released by US-based web tracker ComScore Networks Inc in November, Yahoo!’s share of global Internet searches dropped 22% on the same period a year earlier. Google’s share meanwhile rose 27% on the previous year.