Google chairman interested in wooing Yahoo away from Microsoft
Yahoo’s (YHOO) decision to go with Microsoft’s (MSFT) Bing as its underlying search technology hasn’t exactly upended the search engine market, and now Google (GOOG) Chairman Eric Schmidt has publicly stated that he’s interested in breaking up the marriage between the two companies. Forbes reports that while speaking at an event to promote the Nexus 7 tablet in Japan on Monday, Schmidt said that he would love to have Yahoo switch to Google as its official search partner, years after the two companies called off talks to partner for search over fears that the government would file an antitrust suit against them. The idea of a Google-Yahoo partnership is particularly intriguing since former Google executive Marissa Mayer took over as Yahoo’s chief executive earlier this year.
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