Microsoft offered to buy Facebook during a meeting with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, a senior executive confirmed Friday. Microsoft’s investment of $240 million in Facebook was announced publicly in October 2007. Microsoft and Facebook have worked together building several fronts against Google. In July 2008, Microsoft reached a deal with Facebook to provide Web search services to users of the social network. The service is seen as a way to steer Facebook users away from Google Docs to Microsoft’s online document sharing and collaboration service. The company has expanded its search capabilities to include publicly posted information on Facebook.”]
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