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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
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Figure: Adding this logo would look good
Acknowledgements
Adam Cogan