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> Yahoo made offers to buy Google I think you have that backwards, Google kept asking Yahoo to buy them [1] [1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/remember-yahoo-

• jasode 6y ago
  >I think you have that backwards, Google kept asking Yahoo to buy them The early 1998 $1 million offer was prompted by Larry Page and Yahoo rejected him. However, the 2002 offer of $3 billion was from Yahoo and Google rejected them. In 2002, Google was already starting to see profits so they were under no pressure to sell.
  • thinkloop 6y ago
    You're right: "In 2002, Yahoo's CEO at the time, Terry Semel, engaged in negotiations to acquire Google, which lasted several months. The outcome of the negotiation was Semel balking at Google's price tag of $5 billion."