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AOL has announced the completion of its acquisition of Bebo, a social network based in the UK. Bebo boasts an estimated 40 million users worldwide.

Randy Falco, Chairman and CEO of AOL, said of the deal, “AOL is now fully focused on growing our business in three key areas – our advertising network, publishing and people networks – by delivering relevant content and advertising across the Web, and we’re making great progress in each area.”

But will the acquisition threaten another ad network? Last year, Yahoo UK inked an ad deal with Bebo for the social network’s display advertising.

This is the sort of thing that I thought we’d wrapped up last week.  No matter, though, as it’s still interesting, and "interesting" is, after all, what Yahoo’s Finds of the Year 2007 were required to be.
Another condition was that the sites be innovative, and a third was that they be British.  This last condition, [...]

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Yahoo services Answers and Music joined social networking site Bebo to tap its popularity with users in the United Kingdom.While Facebook’s platform and Google’s Open Social have drawn some lines, at least among bloggers, Yahoo has quietly sidestepped both of them in favor of a relationship with Bebo. The social media network site deployed search [...]

In what appears to be a very beneficial deal for both sides, Yahoo UK & Ireland will now sell the majority of Bebo’s display advertising.
Bebo, in case you haven’t heard, is a social network, and in certain parts of the world (like the UK and Ireland), it’s more popular than both MySpace or Facebook.  [...]

This article has nothing to do with market share, revenue, or even brand recognition.  But in search-related news, Yahoo representatives beat Google in both slot car racing and cricket.

Yahoo Better Than Google At Unimportant Games

Andrew Cocker (of Yahoo UK & Ireland) went to the trouble of writing a Yodel Anecdotal post about that last [...]