Wow. Yahoo! has acquired Overture. Back in february, when Google bought Pyra I speculated (not that it was terribly original of me, but anyway...) that Google and the Portals (Yahoo!, MSN, etc) were on a collision course. Certainly the Pyra deal seemed to be something that would affect Yahoo, and their purchase of overture seems to me to be a declaration that the niceties are over. Things are really going to get interesting now...