Microsoft Corp.’s effort to take over Yahoo Inc. has actually become so tortured it might in turn help Internet search and advertising giant Google Inc. to grow stronger, dejection Microsoft’s main reason for reward the deal in the first place.

“We find this to be a very advantageous situation for Google,” Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Derek Brown said Thursday. “The longer this gets dragged out, the better for Google.” Yahoo indicated it is stimulating for a long-drawn-out battle late Wednesday when a statement and a media leak offered a sight at its convoluted search for alternatives to Microsoft’s bid of more than $40 billion. “The more complicated a deal gets, the more difficult it becomes to satisfy all parties,” Brown said. “And the more complicated the (post-deal) integration gets, the more it favors Google.”

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