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GoTo was just one of a slew of companies that came out of Bill Gross' idealab. Bill was truly a fundamental character in the first dotcom era despite not gettin

GoTo was just one of a slew of companies that came out of Bill Gross' idealab. Bill was truly a fundamental character in the first dotcom era despite not getting as mainstream coverage as some of his peers did (though don't get me wrong, he got plenty of press). The nuances in this article that the Googlers claim were fundamental inferiorities of GoTo I think are negligible as they would have just had to tweak their bidding system and it would have been comparable to Google's. Does anyone know what percentage Yahoo got of Google from the patent licensing deal in 2004?

epc 13y ago
Uncertain about the percentage, here’s the relevant quote from the SEC filing: As part of the settlement, Overture will dismiss its patent lawsuit against us and has granted us a fully- paid, perpetual license to the patent that was the subject of the lawsuit and several related patent applications held by Overture. The parties also mutually released any claims against each other concerning the warrant dispute. In connection with the settlement of these two disputes, we issued to Yahoo 2,700,000 shares of Class A common stock." From: http://www.secinfo.com/d14D5a.144az.htm http://www.secinfo.com/d14D5a.144az.htm via http://www.techuser.net/gcoverup.html http://www.techuser.net/gcoverup.html