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Author: sykesix   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: How the mighty can fall
Date: 11/18/25 8:34 PM
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Yahoo had the chance (twice!) to buy Google for a pittance, but bid low.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin tried to sell their search algorithm to Excite for $750,000. Excite got cold feet because Page wanted to replace Excite's entire search algorithm and plus Excite made money by displaying adds. If users got their results too fast they would leave the site.
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