MSN.ca & Sympatico.ca to join forces

Canadian super merger

[heini]

As announced in June [sympatico.globeandmail.com] Canadas two largest portals are planning on joining forces, merging the sites in coming winter/spring.

Sympatico, a Bell Canada property, had ended their relationship with Lycos last year, switching websearch to Google.
The two portals have in May seen 4,75 Mill unique visitors [infopresse.com]. Google as #3 had 2 Mill.

Interesting sideeffect of this merge would be the first MSN portal to be powered by Google websearch - alternatively Google losing a partner.

[jeremy goodrich]

It would make sense for MSN's portal to keep Google -> until they have the in house solution ready :)