I worked in search in late 98. When our team saw the first google search page results we talked for an hour and we all agreed that our company should purchase t

I worked in search in late 98. When our team saw the first google search page results we talked for an hour and we all agreed that our company should purchase them for $10 million. We talked some more and decided $100 million would still be cheap and would absolutely seal the deal (who knows?). But not invented here prevailed of course. It's better it went the way it did.