{"id":16256,"date":"2012-04-27T17:02:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T15:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=16256"},"modified":"2012-04-27T17:02:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T15:02:10","slug":"microsoft-tried-to-sell-bing-to-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/27\/microsoft-tried-to-sell-bing-to-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft tried to sell Bing to Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Slashdot reports<\/a> on the rumor that Microsoft tried to sell its search engine Bing to Facebook. \u00a0After all the hype around how much of a leader Microsoft is in the web industry, I find this to be quite funny. (Provided that it’s true, of course.)<\/p>\n

Microsoft is not a web company. \u00a0It doesn’t think or behave like a web company. \u00a0Sure, they can change, but these things don’t happen so fast. \u00a0Facebook, on the other hand, is a web company. \u00a0They know the difference between Bing search engine and Google search engine. \u00a0More so, they are a social company, and they do know the difference between attempting to index the whole web, and receiving users’ Likes<\/em> and Shares<\/em>.<\/p>\n

While I don’t use Bing myself, I think there is plenty of cool stuff in there. \u00a0But problems that it has to solve as a search engine, are much easier to solve with Facebook’s social graphs – things like SPAM, results gaming, relevance, etc. \u00a0So for me it’s really not a surprise that Facebook declined the offer.<\/p>\n

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Slashdot reports on the rumor that Microsoft tried to sell its search engine Bing to Facebook. \u00a0After all the hype around how much of a leader Microsoft is in the web industry, I find this to be quite funny. (Provided that it’s true, of course.) Microsoft is not a web company. \u00a0It doesn’t think or … Continue reading Microsoft tried to sell Bing to Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62,1334],"tags":[2271,2076,335,1152],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-16256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-facebook","tag-microsoft","tag-search","tag-social-networks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t