eh_tshirt-p235991850859977178q6wh_400 Unlike the gripping back and forth of the fight over Yahoogle last year, the approval for the search and online advertising partnership of Microsoft and Yahoo is chugging along slowly but surely, as the Justice Department has deepened its investigation by reaching out to a broad range of publishers, advertisers, public interest groups and rivals for comment recently.

But, so far, there is still no significant external challenge to the MicroHoo deal, even from Google, the likeliest company to try to scuttle or, at the very least, slow down the deal In other words: Zzzzzzzzzzz... .