Here is an article from Wired with quotes from the Google Product Manager that did the due diligence when they considered buying Skype: https://www.google.com/

Here is an article from Wired with quotes from the Google Product Manager that did the due diligence when they considered buying Skype: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2011/05/why-google-does-not-own-skype/amp https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2011/05/why-googl... Key points: He did not think Skypes p2p communication was a good fit for Google, going so far as to say it ate up bandwidth and was like an old technology. The PM's remarks could be summarized as saying the basic p2p communication architecture was overly and only used in order to avoid a cloud/server based architecture. Basically, the PM thought Skypes architecture and code base couldn't effectively scale or meet real world business requirements that people would pay for.