Yahoo Inc. is "not opposed" to selling its search business, Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen said on Wednesday.

But he said the search business is deeply intertwined with Yahoo's other online products and properties, and so any deal, whether a partnership or a sale, would be done for the right reasons and the right economics.

"It's extremely difficult to draw a line down the middle of the organization and split it into two pieces," Jorgensen told the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet conference.

He did not mention specifically Microsoft Corp，which had repeatedly said it was interested in doing a search deal with Yahoo to compete against market leader Google Inc.

On Tuesday CNBC, citing anonymous sources, said Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft Corp, may still be interested in a search deal with Yahoo and has tried unsuccessfully to talk with new Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz about it.

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz said she did not join the company in January to sell it, nor did she have a preconceived notion of doing a search deal, but that "everything is on the table".

The Internet company is widely expected to announce soon a major corporate reorganization under Bartz.