NEW YORK (AFP) – Yahoo! chief executive Carol Bartz played down speculation of an Internet search tie-up with Microsoft saying the Web pioneer did not need to make a deal with the software giant.
"Yahoo! doesn't have to do anything with Microsoft about anything," Bartz said at a conference here of technology analysts.
"Yahoo! actually has a bright, bright future, probably cleaner and simpler future without thinking there's any Microsoft connection," she said. "We'd be better off if we'd never heard the word Microsoft.
"Forget about the Microsoft stuff, it's honestly not that relevant," she said.
Microsoft tried last year to buy Yahoo! for 47.5 billion dollars in a vain effort to merge online resources to better battle Google, which rules more than 60 percent of the lucrative US online search market.
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