At the time that Google entered the market, there were at least 16 other search engines in existence [1] and all Google did was search. They had the smallest f

At the time that Google entered the market, there were at least 16 other search engines in existence [1] and all Google did was search. They had the smallest front page of any of the search engines at the time. It was very refreshing, and Page Rank turned out to be incredible at returning results but the "making money" thing was still very unclear at the time. I seem to recall they wanted to sell out to Yahoo for $10 million (1999? 2000?), but apparently, that was too much for Yahoo's liking. [1] I only know this because I still have the bookmarks from the time on my machine. Back in 1996, I wrote a metasearch engine that queried 16 other search engines (http://www.conman.org/people/spc/refs/search/search.hp1.html http://www.conman.org/people/spc/refs/search/search.hp1.html).