The European Commission is expected to approve Microsoft and Yahoo's landmark, 10-year search deal designed to put a stop to Google's search dominance. Reuters said the European Commission, which oversees matters of corporate competition for European Union, is expected to bless the deal. The EC gave itself a February 19 to approve or halt the deal. Microsoft and Yahoo's combined share would be 28 percent, still less than half of Google's 65.4 percent, according to the comScore figures for January 2010. Without Yahoo, Bing would take much longer to challenge Google.
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