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Yahoo CEO laments not buying Google

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

Friday, May 12, 2006
18 years ago2,137 views

http://news.com.com/2061-10811_3-6071461.html

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

Hmm so Larry and Sergey asked for $3 billion but Terry Semel only wanted to hand out $1 billion (and Larry and Sergey said they don't want to sell in the first place, really)?

And isn't it also true that Yahoo was approached by Larry and Sergey much earlier on in history, around 1998? Take a look, from Battelle's The Search:
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2005-10-01-n79.html

<<Over the course of the next eighteen months, the young investors gave demonstrations of Google to nearly every search company in the Valley, from Yahoo to Infoseek. They also showed their technology to several venture capitalists. Everyone found their technology interesting, but each sent the grad students on their way. “I told them to go pound sand,” recalled Steve Kirsch, founder of the now defunct portal Infoseek. Jerry Yang and David Filo, the founders of Yahoo, were more encouraging, but they, too, took a pass.

“They were becoming portals,” Page recalls of the companies he visited. “We probably would have licensed it if someone gave us the money. . . . [But] they were not interested in search.

“They did have horoscopes, though,” he adds drily.>>

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