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Taking Thursday's Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco by surprise, co-founder of Google made an appearance at the venue and answered numerous curious questions which are currently affecting the search engine company. This was also where he stated that Yahoo's latest decision to get into a search outsourcing deal with software giant Microsoft is lamentable. The statement came when Google's mastermind was being interviewed on stage by Conference Chairman John Battelle.

Under the said deal, Yahoo would have to do away with its current back-end search indexing and crawling systems and make use of Microsoft's new search engine Bing as a mode of powering its own search engine.

While Brin did not fail to compliment and congratulate Yahoo on trying new things and putting forward interesting innovations, he did express his disappointment on the decision taken by Yahoo which is currently the second largest search engine after Google. "I think it's a shame Yahoo plans to abdicate that area because they were doing interesting things", Brin said.

Although Brin made no comments on his thoughts on Government regulations and whether it should approve the Yahoo-Microsoft deal or not, he did admit that via Bing, everyone, including Google, has been reminded that the search engine market is very competitive.