“Over a year ago, Microsoft executives sent out feelers to Facebook to see if the company would be interested in acquiring Bing, though the overture was not officially sanctioned by Steven A. Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft, one of these people said. Mr. Zuckerberg declined, saying Facebook had too much else to concentrate on. Dawn Beauparlant, a spokeswoman for Microsoft, declined to comment, as did Ashley Zandy, a spokeswoman for Facebook.” Seems Facebook is smart.
If the execs in charge of Bing wanted to get rid of it, why they did so much effort to merge with Yahoo in a not so distant past?
It’s called salesmanship. You never EVER let on how desperately you want to get rid of something. Even if you would be willing to pay for others to buy it off you, you act as though it is so valuable you’d trade your grandchild’s life for it.
Simply put, Yahoo had at one point a significant market presence, and as such, people are more likely to relate to the Yahoo brand than the Bing brand. Microsoft knew this, hence the attempted buyout.
So bad not even it’s creator wants it…
Kepp up the great work MS! Put it on the list with Zune, Bob, ME, Vista and Win8!
Edited 2012-04-27 21:01 UTC
You forgot KIN
You mean the OS which sees more usage than, say, OSX ( http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-201104-201204 ) …and, when service-packed, is basically just as good as Win7?
When Facebook which bought Instapaper for $1 billion thinks Bing is a poor deal then you know Bing must be doing really awful.
Hmm… that’s strange. I can’t seem to find … Oh, somehow my search preference got switched pack. Damn you IT department!