Yahoo has inked a deal with Hewlett-Packard Co. to piggyback its Internet search engine on millions of computers, the latest in a high-stakes battle with Google and Microsoft. The agreement requires HP to set up its desktop and notebook PCs in North America so Yahoo's search engine appears in the toolbar of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7, the next version of the Web's most widely used browser. Yahoo is hoping that the tool bar will generate more search requests, providing a springboard for more ad revenue.
Yahoo ranks a distant second to Google in the lucrative search engine market while Palo Alto-based HP continues to trail Dell Inc. in personal computer sales despite recent gains. Yahoo didn't disclose how much it will pay HP to spotlight its search engine — a detail that Google also left out in its Dell deal.
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