I dont think Yahoo has packed its bags. It outsourced only its sponsored search(not in full). This could make them understand which queries competition is doing

I dont think Yahoo has packed its bags. It outsourced only its sponsored search(not in full). This could make them understand which queries competition is doing better. If they were not serious, they could have outsourced web search. They could save tons of cash on development and servers. The whole outsourcing thing is to make MS want them more, just inorder to prevent Yahoo from sleeping with Google