The global war between everyone's two favorite search giants continues as the big Y dropped the big G as the back end search technology for their properties Down Under. Yahoo Australia and New Zealand now plan to focus on using a in-house solution called Yahoo Search Technologies.
Yahoo Australia Search Producer Peter Crowe said the company had been working on the transition ever since the company purchased search provider Inktomi.
"In the search business, you do need to be able to control your own algorithmic source and how it works with the rest of the page," Crowe said.
