NY Times: Microsoft Tried To Unload Bing On Facebook 230
benfrog writes "According to a blog posting on the New York Times site, Microsoft tried to sell the perpetual money-losing Bing to Facebook 'over a year ago' (the article cites 'several people with knowledge of the discussions who didn't want to be identified talking about internal deliberations'). Steve Ballmer, apparently, was not involved or consulted. Facebook politely declined. Neither Microsoft or Facebook would comment on the rumors."
Intragam (Score:5, Funny)
And instead they bought Intragam, possibly the only product/site in existence that is actually stupider then Bing.
Stupid to Sell (Score:4, Funny)
Bing is better in some ways than Google and folks are starting to notice. Microsoft would be stupid to abandon it.
Re:Stupid to Sell (Score:5, Funny)
Now you'll be sure to get the raise.
Re:Intragam (Score:5, Funny)
Bing is on Facebook's acquisition list though. Bing is just below Zombo.com [zombo.com].
Re:Companies do this all the time (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Companies do this all the time (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Companies do this all the time (Score:2, Funny)
What is this thing women you speak of?
Re:Companies do this all the time (Score:5, Funny)
I don't get the part about testing the waters with women. I didn't know they were any good for that.
You just throw them in and see what happens. They squeal if it's too cold, scream if there are too many sharks, etc.
Re:Intragam (Score:5, Funny)
Zombo.com is entirely more useful than Bing.
At Bing, you can't do anything.
At Zombo, you can do anything, anything at all, the only limit is yourself!
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BMO - Welcome!
Re:Companies do this all the time (Score:4, Funny)
Testing women? Where can I apply for that job? ;)
Microsoft Tried To Unload Bing On Facebook? (Score:5, Funny)
Silly execs. They should have unloaded it on eBay.
Re:Companies do this all the time (Score:3, Funny)