By Brier Dudley

The marriage of Microsoft and Yahoo! didn't happen as the tabloids predicted, but I wonder if the aging Internet giants will try a domestic partnership instead.

I've been thinking this since I met with Scott Moore, the former head of Microsoft's online-content group, who left two years ago to run the Yahoo! news and information group. Moore, 46, didn't say anything about the companies merging and didn't drop any hints. But the more I learned about his company's strategy, the more a partnership, with MSN at least, seemed to make sense.

Here's my theory.

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