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Microsoft pays Facebook to put Bing on logout page

Facebook got its first customer for the logout page, and the customer is also OS giant Microsoft. Now, it may bee soon that you will get to see Bing page as you logout of the Facebook, though some of the people have got it already as it is testing phase.
This step is taken by Microsoft to save its search engine so called BING 'Bing Is Not Google'. Microsoft has been spending millions of dollars to increase Bing's market share so this
may be one of the biggest step to do so.

As you logout, You’ll see Bing’s trademark wallpaper photo and an active search box, which opens a Bing search results in a separate tab when you search.

Earlier this week, Facebook introduced two new advertising options. 

  1. A way to share special discounts and promotions.
  2. It consists of two new placements for premium advertising and Sponsored Stories: both can now appear on the Facebook logout Page and the mobile News Feed.
Now, mobile news feed ads are already live but logout page ads are supposed to go live in April.

Details Of logout Page:
Now the question os how it happens?
So, the logout page is noting but an app instead of the current http://www.facebook.com/index.php?stype=lo&lh=xxxxxxxxxxxx it has been redirected to  http://apps.facebook.com/index.php?lh=xxxxxxxxxxxx

Review:
Also, a question arises in my mind, Who logs out facebook?
But,  Facebook says 37 million U.S. users logout of the service each day and 105 million do so per month and the total no of monthly active users in US are 161 million.

Microsoft and Facebook are good Friends (have to say that) the internal Facebook search is also integrate with Bing so this may be BING Saver.

Comments

  1. It's cool, I'm usually done with that tab if i log out of fb

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  2. Great, another reason to not like Facebook.

    The only reason I haven't completely switched to G+ is mainly the fact that not many of my friends are on G+. In general though, Google is far superior than Bing. One main reasoning being that you can slap in "That movie where no kids are born" into google and get Children of Men, while on Bing it just gives you some random bullshit. It never knows how to properly construct the search results anyway so I don't even know why they bother with trying to compete with Google.

    At any rate, Google is going to be the industry standard for a very, VERY long time.

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    1. How does Facebook putting an ad on Facebook on a part of the site you can completely ignore if you want to really affect you negatively? As long as they keep the number of ads limited, I don't think this will be too annoying to people. Most people understand that ads are pretty much a fact of life on Facebook. And Facebook, now going to be a publicly traded company will have to maximize shareholder value so we will see a bit more of this type of stuff. An occasional ad isn't a big deal because I think most people understand that this is how Facebook pays for the free service. I think that Facebook is rapidly justifying their $100 billion dollar rumored valuation when you consider how so many big brands had Super Bowl ads that featured Facebook URLs at the end of them, when you consider the sheer number of companies listed at BuyFacebookFansReviews that do nothing other than promote business pages, and when you consider that Facebook is nearing a billion active users despite the frequent criticism they receive as the 800 pound gorilla of the online world. Generally Facebook has done a great job building features that people and businesses alike value and I think its going to be a big part of the popular culture for some time to come. I think Mark Zuckerberg generally has the business acumen and judgement to avoid making bad decisions that will harm his company and he's going to do well for a long time to come. important category that counts and I think he's going to continue to guide his company well, with a clear long-term picture in mind. I think anybody who underestimates Zuckerberg just because of any perceived personal failings is really missing out on the big picture.

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