Yahoo hopes to remain relevant and competitive in the search engine market, battling for users not only against nemesis Google but also against its future search partner, Microsoft.

So said Yahoo executives during a press conference on Monday during which they announced enhancements to Yahoo's search engine, Web mail and instant messaging products, three areas that Yahoo considers key to its success.

Although Yahoo will rely on Microsoft's Bing to provide it with search crawling and indexing, Yahoo will work separately on its search user interface, and will do its best to make it more useful than Google's and even Microsoft's.

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