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I can't say i know a lot about Yahoo. ( Too young and European ). But i'm not sure they could have been Google or Facebook. I've always perceived Yahoo as arrog

I can't say i know a lot about Yahoo. ( Too young and European ). But i'm not sure they could have been Google or Facebook. I've always perceived Yahoo as arrogant without a vision. An analog IT company if you will. Most support seems to be nostalgia. But if somehow Yahoo did buy Google or Facebook I doubt Yahoo would have been up to the task to make it as successful as they are now.

icedchai 8y ago
They literally could have bought both Google and Facebook if they shelled out more money. They tried to acquire both companies. You are right though. They would not have been as successful.
- JulianMorrison 8y ago
  If they'd bought either they would have run it into the ground.
  - icedchai 8y ago
    Yeah, I totally agree... Yahoo management was pretty awful. All the attempts at rebooting failed.
  - wtmt 8y ago
    I'd be happy in a world where Facebook is run into the ground!
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butterfi 8y ago
Don't dismiss early Yahoo, they were a colossus. I wonder how much Google and Facebook have benefited by watching Yahoo's fall from grace.
rpiguy 8y ago
The internet bust of 2000 damaged Yahoo for years to come and from which they never recovered. The primary damage was psychological. Investors lost faith in technology so after 2000 tech companies scrambled to reinvent themselves as "not tech" companies. Yahoo was one of the worst examples, hiring CEOs that tried to turn it into a media company. Yahoo's technology investment suffered and they had no technology strategy for too long.