Yahoo and Wired Debate on Yahoo vrs Google and what could have been YAHOOGLE!
http://www.wired.com/news/wiredmag/1,72497-0.html
http://www.wired.com/news/wiredmag/0,72512-0.html
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"YAHOO Tried to Acquire GOOGLE IN 2002" > this story is in the book "The Search" written by John Battelle. |
And Yahoo actually had the chance to pick up the "Google algorithm" back in1998 – quote John Battelle's The Search:
<<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 ...">> |
yeah i too , coz if yahoo acquired it
we might be using Gmail with Flash and picture ads and also ugly signature ads...
do you love google talk with flash ads ? the mail space would ultimately be not more than 40Mb.
Thanks Google |
<<if yahoo acquired it we might be using Gmail with Flash and picture ads and also ugly signature ads... >>
dont forget the gay dude when you login Yahoo! Mail Beta
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if you were to ask semel if he had it to do again..he would say he should've done that deal. |
I think, that Semel once said, that was the biggest mistake that yahoo made!!
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