"US telecoms giant Verizon Communications is to buy Yahoo's search and advertising operations" First, I was surprised to see search operations mentioned, since

"US telecoms giant Verizon Communications is to buy Yahoo's search and advertising operations" First, I was surprised to see search operations mentioned, since they farmer that out to Microsoft. Second, if this is only search and advertising, I wonder what will happen to things like Flickr and Tumblr. It should be interesting to see what is actually in the announcement.