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	<b>Last week's $45bn <a href="http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/364976/microsoft-bids-45bn-for-yahoo.html" target="_self">acquisition bid by Microsoft for Yahoo</a> certainly gets you thinking.</b>
</p><p>I guess many of us saw it coming but, for me at least, not just yet. Now that I’ve stopped kicking myself for not buying shares in Yahoo, it’s time to start envisaging what the impact would be on search marketing, particularly in the UK.</p>]]></description><link>http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/364978/what-will-microsoft-yahoo-mean-to-uk-search-and-ask.html</link><comments>http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/364978/what-will-microsoft-yahoo-mean-to-uk-search-and-ask.html#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 4 Feb 2008 08:35:00 UT</pubDate><guid>http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/364978/what-will-microsoft-yahoo-mean-to-uk-search-and-ask.html</guid></item></channel></rss>