You question is excellently timed. There has been much speculation about this and many estimates, however the results have been less than accurate. Now, because of the release of the AOL sample set search optimizers and researchers have their pest opportunity yet to predict this behaviour.
Here is a recent example:
http://seoblackhat.com/2006/08/11/to...gle-yahoo-msn/
Hope that helps
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