Harish Palaniappan's

Imagine.. !

But that might well to be true, at least in corporate terms. As far as my memory can reach I can't remember any major dispute between Yahoo and Google.. if there were, they were petty disputes, or things that they sorted out quickly before media noticed. Be it good that we have forgotten their bitter fight last year, over who indexes the most of the web's content.

I remember seeing quite few instances where Yahoo had credited Google as one of the biggest things that happened in a year 2004/5 in yahoo's 'year that was' diary published at the end of year (something like this but for a previous year, i have that link also somewhere in this blog, if you bothered you could do a search and probably land up).

Last week I spotted this Yahoo Ad on Google mail (notice the 'Ask Yahoo!' thing in the below image, its an Ad link).. This must be again one of the instances where they have their friendly exchanges.

And if you didn't know, of the many things, Google was once sued by Yahoo on Google Adsense.. because Yahoo had the patent for Adsense kind of Ad delivery technology through its sister concern 'Overture'. The case was settled out-of-court quite amicably like a friendly dispute.. and till this day Google Adsense pays royalty or license charges to Yahoo for using their patented technology.