The Yahoo!/Microsoft chess match continues: Yahoo! enters trial partnership with Google

I do not believe for a moment that Yahoo suffers from lack of talent or technology know how in all areas as compare to Google. Going for AdSense send the signal that they do believe there’s a problem with their ads system. Its shows how desperate Yahoo is facing all their trouble, desperate to the point of losing self confidence.

Yahoo problem is not technology, at least not the main problem, the problem is lack of traffic, search traffic which generates revenue from ads, they seems to be failing to recognize it in this move. They can try what ever they want; actually I think it is a bad strategy, it supports in the mind of their remaining audience that Google is better. If Google is better even in their mind MS should reduce the offer.

I'm pretty sure Yahoo! has it's own ad system. Does this mean that (Yahoo! thinks) adsense is better?

what's with calling everything a chess match? as a chess player I can tell you that chess matches are rather different.