Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer told The Wall Street Journal the latest search partnership with Microsoft was structured to "put more pressure on Microsoft to make the product better." She also said the company will improve its search capabilities, in part, through its new Microsoft relationship. Under the deal, Yahoo and Microsoft can each terminate their agreement starting Oct 1. 

Siri uses Bing and Wolfram Alpha for Web searches, but it might want to index the Web if it's building a search engine to support mobile apps. Some think Apple is building its own search engine, but the company has never seen that as a priority. They focus more on the hardware. Rumors began last fall, when webmasters began seeing Web crawler visits from IP addresses starting with 17 -- the IP address block owned entirely by Apple. Ben Lovejoy explains.

Google has officially joined the Rocket open-source project and will roll the technology into one of its cloud computing tools. CoreOS founder and CEO Alex Polvi will announce Google’s involvement Monday at an event in San Francisco. Both Google and CoreOS were supporters of a rival cloud technology company known as Docker, per Wired. 

Google has begun testing a feature it calls Collections that lets users aggregate or collect topic of interest, such as movies or events, similar to the pin boards on Pinterest. These collections are themed channels of content focusing on anything. The collections are not collaborative. Apparently it seems like a way for Google to allow users to group common things. Bill Slawski points to a related patent.

Salesforce is up for sale, per reports, but will Microsoft become the suitor? Alex Cho seems to think so. Among the reasons, Microsoft sits on $85.4 billion in cash and it would further the company's move into cloud computing and build out its network of application developers. Plus, Microsoft cannot afford for Google to gain momentum. He points to Gartner stats that estimate Microsoft's market share in customer relationship management space at 7%, compared with Salesforce's 16% market share. Cho explains.