Buying facebook would be a nice play, but it would be more like putting all your eggs into one basket as yahoo has more unique properties, including gems like f

Buying facebook would be a nice play, but it would be more like putting all your eggs into one basket as yahoo has more unique properties, including gems like flickr. However, many people feel the future of search is through social networks, that is, seeing what my friends think/have bought before I go off on my own to try and figure things out is a pretty compelling reason to invest in a high growth social network. Although I'm sure most MS engineers are sweating given facebook's platofrm. It comes down to facebooks long term viability as a property on the net.