I doubt very much that it will go well. I used to work for a small Overture-like search marketing company. We were purchased by Yahoo about the same time Overtu

I doubt very much that it will go well. I used to work for a small Overture-like search marketing company. We were purchased by Yahoo about the same time Overture was. Overture's bosses took over that end of the business, to the extent that we were given @overture.com email addresses. Then they sucked away a large percentage of developer resources for years to do their total rewrite called Panama, adding features we'd had in Brasil (Brasil!) for years. Our code got drowned in the bathtub, except in the countries and languages that OVT couldn't bother to support. So there's an example where better code and cheaper infrastructure, already in hand and ready to go, lost out to Overture. So you think Microsoft will fare any better with that maligant tumor? MSFT's tech is nice, but it's not (repeat NOT) ready for anything other than US English + Europe. It's a disaster in the making.