Yahoo's Smaller Deals Could Goose Microsoft, Google

have cut a deal Steve Rubel

Over the weekend, Yahoo also said it was buying the social bookmarking network, del.icio.us.

Forrester Research analyst Charlene Li writes about the potential impact:

While Yahoo has been zeroing in on smaller, more focused acquisitions and partnerships, Google and Microsoft have, reportedly, spent time unfruitfully over the past few months in pursuit of larger game.