Yet another reason where Yahoo is still of interest to the world, it seems that their search engine is coming to the instant-on PC world. Splashtop in the US and Japan, will be featuring Yahoo Search for their instant on users. Finally, I can access second rate search results from a feature on a computer that I have no personal use for.

Sarcasm aside, I think this is a good move for Yahoo — the first in some time, actually. While the market that they will be reaching on the Splashtop might not be huge, it will provide Yahoo with a second chance at reaching users that would rather use a third alternative to Google that bother with the meta search-like results coming from Yahoo.

On the revenue front, the Yahoo search bar is a revenue share for Splashtop and a fair sized one at that. But I suspect as soon as people realize they can select other search engines on their Splashtop, the romance will be over and that revenue is going to dip quite a bit.