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Yahoo refused to buy Google? I don't remember that. In 2000, when Yahoo signed the deal to use Google search results, they also made an investment as well. IIR
by CalChris 10y ago
Yahoo refused to buy Google? I don't remember that.
In 2000, when Yahoo signed the deal to use Google search results, they also made an investment as well. IIRC, they sold that when Google went public. Obviously, Yahoo made a ton on that.
- josephg 10y agoLarry and Sergey tried selling their pagerank engine to Yahoo back in 1998, before they formed Google. Yahoo wasn't interested. They founded google as a fallback plan after being turned down.
- rgbrenner 10y agohttps://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-Yahoo-turned-down-an-offer-to-buy-Google-for-around-1-million-in-1998 https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-Yahoo-turned-down-an-o... there was also a time a few years later, when yahoo offered 3b for google: https://www.wired.com/2007/02/yahoo-3/ https://www.wired.com/2007/02/yahoo-3/
- throwaway_exer 10y ago1. The Google founders initially tried to sell Pagerank to Yahoo for $1 billion when Google was just a search research company. 2. Later, Yahoo bought goto.com before Adwords came out. Adwords infringed on goto's patents. Google ended up giving a few hundred million to Yahoo.