1. Purchase Delicious

   Given that there's still uncertainty around the future of Delicious and that Yahoo may want to off-load it -
   - I think this would be an excellent acquisition for the Bing team.

   Besides the fact that delicious is awesome, and would be a wonderful addition to Live, there's big value for the Bing team:
   • As it would mean Microsoft incorporate LiveID into this new asset
   • As it would give a compelling reason to have the live toolbar installed
   • As it would give Live users a bookmark solution - that would be better than google bookmarks
   • As Bing search could be improved by incorporating Delicious bookmarks as a social ranking factor in the Bing ranking algorithm.

   FYI Bing has been actively increasing its social signals lately (aka SocialRank via Facebook & Twitter) and adding Delicious would be another step up and way to differentiate from
   Google:
   http://searchengineland.com/what-social-signals-do-google-bing-really-count-55389

   

   Figure: Adding this logo would look good

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