Breaking news, really a rumor right now on Facebook

[TheForce]

Just now on CNBC it was reported that an insider has divulged the overall plan after FB goes public. FB is targeting Google in an alliance with Microsoft where Microsoft will partner with FB and give FB Bing search engine to build out search in a FB desktop. The theory is that FB feels that ads can be better targeted to users because FB knows its users much better than Google. Facebook wants to replace Google. CNBC says that in the coming weeks more on this will get leaked to the press. FB and Microsoft has declined to comment on the story. I'm writing this as the story is breaking.

 

[John Kotches]

No disrespect meant to facebook when I type this... But is MS that desperate to stay relevant that they are resorting to partnering with the new hotness (i.e. facebook)?

Nevermind, that a year or so ago, it was outed that bing used google search results to improve their search engine results.

 

[meStevo]

Yeah, this doesn't make much sense to me either. It's also years away even if remotely true.

Also a grand strategy using the desktop is pretty flawed, as I'd wager with no quantifiable data that a not insignificant and growing portion of Facebook's traffic is mobile.

 

[TheForce]

As the story reported, the insider who is the source says FB wants to restructure how the average person uses search, gets targeted by advertising and uses a computer. Doesn't matter if FB is on a smart phone, ipad, or desktop. Obviously this has nothing to do with people who use a computer to "compute" but rather it will change the way we all gather information and shop. It will also obsolete forums like satelliteguys unless these places can work inside of Facebook. Zuckerberg sees FB as a world domination bigger than Bill Gates ever imagined for MS.

Personally, I think FB is a passing fad and could be replaced by something else. Right now it is the AOL of the 90's

 

[Claude Greiner]

I hate facebook. Wish they would go away like Myspace did.

 

[Peter Parker]

No disrespect meant to facebook when I type this... But is MS that desperate to stay relevant that they are resorting to partnering with the new hotness (i.e. facebook)?

Nevermind, that a year or so ago, it was outed that bing used google search results to improve their search engine results.

Microsoft already hasa pretty strong relationship with Facebook. They are an odd couple if there ever was one but it is already in place.

 

[navychop]

I believe FB is stagnant or declining in the US.

 

[DodgerKing]

I hate facebook. Wish they would go away like Myspace did.

Just sent you a friend request on FB.

 

[TheForce]

I signed up for FB so I could read and see my daughter's FB entries. I didn't do anything with it but now her friends have logged onto my FB page and posted photos and other comments. I also have people I haven't seen in years wanting me to be a friend. Some of these are old clients in my TV ad business. A couple are old scuba students. Others I have no clue who they are. It's almost like a religion. Even a guy I haven't seen since HS requested I be his friend. We weren't even friends in HS that I recall.

I recently signed up for Twitter after avoiding it for so long. I wanted to use it to get a connection to a TV personality and read the posters on his Twittblog or whatever its called. I subscribed to rocky's page as practice.

 

[Hall]

I hate facebook. Wish they would go away like Myspace did.

This will help you

 

[berck]

Personally, I think FB is a passing fad and could be replaced by something else. Right now it is the AOL of the 90's

I agree. FB replaced MySpace. Just don't know if it will be Google+ replacing FB.

 

[rockymtnhigh]

My space never had the overwhelming user base that fb has, of all generations of people from kids in their tweens to their grand-parents. While it has plenty of issues, its not quite the same as the AOL of the 90s, when there was a huge digital divide. Today everybody has internet, and many have smartphones. THe pervasive nature of it - while slowing down in its growth patterns in the US, is very different from any other social media.

 

[meStevo]

Its funny to me you can login to myspace with tour Facebook credentials.

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[Hall]

MySpace is now no different than news sites, tech sites, etc, etc who have found it's easier to get users to "sign up" or register if they use the FB method.

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