Microsoft won't buy Facebook anytime soon - May. 9, 2008

SEATTLE (Fortune) -- When Microsoft walked away from its blockbuster bid for Yahoo, the media sought desperately to keep the news coming even when there wasn't much left to say. That seems to be how The Wall Street Journal came up with the notion that Microsoft had approached Facebook about an acquisition. It's not true. Good sources at Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) recently have told me several t

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David Kirkpatrick summarizes, "Here's one key reason why: As Facebook grows worldwide, the information it collects about individuals and their activities grows as well. But search engine software like Microsoft's cannot "crawl" this data as it could a regular website."

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David Kirkpatrick predicts:"MySpace is still the world's largest social network(.....)Perhaps now News Corp.(...)would be willing to sell it. For now, Google is its big advertising partner. That's all the more reason to imagine Microsoft making a move for MySpace(...)"