SAN FRANCISCO, California — Fresh from a failed courtship with Microsoft, Yahoo on Thursday rushed into Google’s arms in the hope an alliance will improve its sagging fortunes and quell a rebellion by stockholders.

Yahoo and Google announced a deal to put the Internet search king’s expertise to work pumping money from advertising posted next to Yahoo Internet search results.

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A start-up company, Powerset, made a search engine that offers a smarter and more efficient experience, according to Scott Prevost, Powerset’s Product Director.

He quotes:

“We’re changing the way information is searched by doing a much deeper analysis of the pages we index.”

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Ask.com released its Top 10 list for Web search terms for 2007 and it was noteworthy as much for what made the list as for what did not.

Number 1 is MySpace, followed in order by: Dictionary, Google, Themes, Area Codes, Cars, Weather, Games, Song Lyrics, and Movies.

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