MSN and Yahoo!-in a scale game, Google is becoming harder to beat.' Similarly, a Merrill Lynch report noted, 'the deal reinforces our view that the competitive efforts from Yahoo! and Microsoft (MSFT) will not impact on Google's growth in the near and intermediate term. Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney termed the deal 'a nice competitive win' for Google, writing: 'Google has locked up a large partner vs. In their notes to investors following the deal, analysts declared that Google, once again, had shown that it was better, faster, and miles ahead of the competition.

2, and the agreement ties Google with MySpace, which surpassed Yahoo mail last month as the most visited destination on the Internet, according to market research firm Hitwise. So, Wall Street's knee-jerk reaction when Google won the bid to handle search for News Corporation's Fox Interactive Media (NWS) was to pronounce Yahoo! the clear loser in the deal. Conventional wisdom holds that wherever there's a winner, a loser can't be too far behind.

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