Yahoo! Inc, owner of the world's most-used group of Internet sites, stopped using search software provided by competitor Google Inc on its site for US users and offered a new search engine developed with its own software.
Yahoo replaced the Google search engine with one based on technology acquired in its purchase of Inktomi Corp 11 months ago, Jeff Weiner, a Yahoo senior vice president, said in an interview. Investors have said they expected the switch since Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo agreed to buy Inktomi in December 2002.
Yahoo is ending its partnership with Google as the two companies compete for advertisers and Google prepares for an initial public offering of stock. Google's own Web site has surpassed Yahoo's as the most used for Web searches. Microsoft Corp has said it will also develop its own search engine for its MSN Internet sites as it tries to attract more advertisers.
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