Micro-hoo Deal gets over one hurdle.

Yesterday, it was announced that Microsoft and Yahoo received approval from both the US government and European Commission regarding their search deal announced last summer.

Now the search technologies, businesses, etc need to merge and actually work. Yahoo! organic rankings will become part of Bing and the paid search will be adCenter.

With all of the issues that need to be ironed, does anyone out there think that this merger will be completed by the self imposed plan, which is by the 2010 holiday season?