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Yahoo Embedding Services in HP PCs

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Sep 29, 2006 
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Yahoo Embedding Services in HP PCs

Yahoo and computer manufacturer Hewlett-Packard have entered an agreement to distribute Yahoo services with every new HP PC sold in Europe and North America. The distributed package includes localized versions of a Yahoo and HP-branded toolbar, sets the default home page in Internet Explorer to a Yahoo start page. Computers sold in North America will also have the IE7 default search engine set to Yahoo instead of MSN or Windows Live Search, once the production version of IE7 is released by Microsoft.

The co-branded toolbar includes Yahoo web search, a Yahoo email alert that tells the user if they have any unread mail in their Yahoo Mail inbox, provides access to HP customer support services, and blocks popup ads. When users fire up Internet Explorer 7 for the first time on a new HP PC or laptop, they see the Yahoo start page, which contains links to Yahoo content, services, and news.

“Partnering with a company like HP puts Yahoo! in an excellent position to be able to distribute our most widely adopted offerings, like Yahoo! Search and the new Yahoo! Mail, to an even broader audience across the globe,” said Yahoo COO Dan Rosensweig in a statement.





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