Disclaimer: I work for Yahoo. Actually the deal has been approved by the US DoJ too. 88% revenue share is only for the traffic that Y! generates through its pr

Disclaimer: I work for Yahoo. Actually the deal has been approved by the US DoJ too. 88% revenue share is only for the traffic that Y! generates through its properties - if people hit bing.com directly, Y! gets nothing. Needless to say MSFT is betting that in the long-term they can convince people to visit Bing.com directly. Y! is hoping they can innovate on top of the raw search results to still keep users coming to Y! search. I just fear none of this will have any impact on Google's search share - Y! and Bing will cannibalize on each other. But who knows how it will all pan out.