Last year, Yahoo and Microsoft held several negotiations which ended without any result. But it looks like that a new series of discussions have started once again. According to an anonymous person, Ms. Bartz, Yahoo’s chief executive, and Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, met last week.

Both Yahoo and Microsoft have refused to talk about the meeting.

According to that anonymous person, the discussions have just started and thus may not produce any agreement. But it seems like that the two companies are looking to agree on an ad partnership in which Yahoo will display Microsoft’s search ads and vice versa.

Microsoft is really trying to win the competition with Google. Ever since last year, Microsoft has taken several steps to beat Google. They hired numerous search executive and top notch engineers. Microsoft is even working on a total makeover of its search engine.

Lets see if we get to see any partnership between Microsoft and Yahoo.