Terms. The US group Yahoo! announced that Microsoft would be willing to invest eight billions dollars in the company, if it will give up its search engine for a billion dollars, according to AFP.

This investment is conditioned by the signing of an exclusivity agreement on a 10 years period which would make Yahoo! addicted to Microsoft for all his online searching activities", said the Yahoo! president, Roy Bostock, and the general director, Jerry Yang, in a letter sent to the shareholders. Microsoft was willing to buy just the Yahoo! search engine, after the company rejected the offer of integral takeover of 47 billions dollars.