Appearing at the Web 2.0 Summit on Thursday a cofounder of the world’s searching giant Google Sergey Brin who serves as the President of Technology responded to many questions touching upon hot issues that concern the company.

In an interview conducted by the conference chairman John Battelle, Brin expressed his disappointment with Yahoo’s deal with Microsoft.

"I think it's a shame Yahoo plans to abdicate that area because they were doing interesting things," Brin said about the deal, which calls for Yahoo to turn off its back-end search crawling and indexing systems and instead use Microsoft's Bing to power its search engine. Brin complimented Yahoo on what he called interesting innovations in search.

Meantime, Yahoo has been making every effort to persuade the public it will still remain competitive and in spite of the agreement it will be able to rival even Bing in 

Commenting on the functionality of Microsoft’s new searching engine Brin said that he used Bing just like he uses all search engines and noted that it features very interesting options.

"Bing has reminded us that search is a very competitive market," Brin said.