>Yahoo) requires users to submit their websites. It worked well enough. It didn't work well enough because back in 2000, Yahoo was one of the first companies t

>Yahoo) requires users to submit their websites. It worked well enough. It didn't work well enough because back in 2000, Yahoo was one of the first companies to license Google's search engine. (The previous year, AOL licensed Google's search engine.) Yahoo incorrectly thought that their "portal" and user-submitted "directories" were more important to web surfers than search algorithms like Google's Pagerank. They eventually realized their misjudgment and then tried to build a Google clone through acquisitions like Inktomi and Overture: https://www.cnet.com/g00/news/yahoo-to-acquire-inktomi/ https://www.cnet.com/g00/news/yahoo-to-acquire-inktomi/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/yahoo-buys-search-engine/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/yahoo-buys-search-engine/ https://www.cnet.com/g00/news/yahoo-dumps-google-search-technology/ https://www.cnet.com/g00/news/yahoo-dumps-google-search-tech...