Microsoft cannot match Google leverage

It has not been a good couple of weeks for Microsoft, at least not when it comes to how the online search space is fanning out anyway. Following on from the refusal of yahoo to take the Microsoft buy out bid seriously, comes the news that it is jumping into bed with Google instead. If it were not bad enough that Yahoo didn't see the Microsoft bid of some $9 billion in cash and $1 billion every year in a revenue sharing scheme as serious enough, the news that it had decided to opt for an advertising deal with Google must have been hard to swallow. Especially when you examine the terms of that agreement, which seem to suggest that as far as Yahoo is concerned Google is the real powerhouse and not Microsoft.