NY Times: Microsoft Tried To Unload Bing On Facebook

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."

Comments

Intragam

[wisnoskij]

And instead they bought Intragam, possibly the only product/site in existence that is actually stupider then Bing.

Re:Intragam

[Eponymous Coward]

Bing is on Facebook's acquisition list though. Bing is just below Zombo.com.

Re:Intragam

[bmo]

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:Stupid to Sell

[busyqth]

Good job.
Now you'll be sure to get the raise.

Re:Companies do this all the time

[busyqth]

I don't get the part about testing the waters with women. I didn't know they were any good for that.

Re:Companies do this all the time

[simoncpu was here]

This is Slashdot. Analogies involving women are invalid. Please use cars instead.

Re:Companies do this all the time

[Black Parrot]

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.

Microsoft Tried To Unload Bing On Facebook?

[Black Parrot]

Silly execs. They should have unloaded it on eBay.