The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday that according to a source close to the matter, Google has been shopping around at least two private equity firms about potentially assisting them to finance a deal to buy Yahoo Inc.

Yahoo has been doing dismal in troubled times all while Google has been gaining market share in the Internet advertising space.

Microsoft’s 2008 47.5 billion dollar offer is looking pretty good now as offers of around 20 billion are being floated.

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