How Yahoo Failed to Buy Google (Twice!)

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Yahoo is perhaps one of the internet's most iconic brands. But it's also a company that has made a series of major missteps (like failing to acquire Google, two times!).
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[@BusinessCasual]

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[@KyleLi]

Honestly, if Yahoo had bought Google, Google would have been ruined on the pure basis of differing business strategies. Its very likely we would not have the youtube we have today, or many of our freedoms with tech. Nor would we have android. Yahoo was not an internal innovator, but rather a corporate buyer.

[@anthonygore-au]

Both youtube and android were acquisitions for google! But I agree, Google had a way superior innovation culture

[@paulocuento9949]

its probably best if yahoo tried to merge with google.. and let google take the drivers seat.. with that, they wont lose money.. and practically earn more in the coming years without too much to worry about

[@ElCazador66]

It is very likely that they would buy Google only to drive it out of business as many large corporations do. It would be interesting to see the development of internet without Google.

[@lu881]

That's true, I was thinking the same, but then I thought that if they had bought or better yet -merged with Google, Sergey and Larry would still be a part of the company and probably hold positions strong enough for them to employ their innovativeness and ideas and maybe still create the things we have today. Basically, because they would have a seat on the table, they might've been able to influence some decisions, and enact their innovative ideas.

[@roborich7793]

Cheers mate!

[@detailsmove]

Imo if Yahoo acquired Google at either purchase, I'm not sure if Google would necessarily develop into the company and brand we know today

[@jzk2020]

Yeah, Yahoo has always been a cesspit for online trolls, horny teens, weird creepy older men and white supremacists losers. Not exactly what Google is known for. Thank God they didn't buy it, they would have ruined it. Die Yahoo, Die.

[@lool12366]

It could possibly be bigger as well.

[@fxshyy]

iOS would be the most successful phone.

[@skelworthvods984]

C. Lincoln I had good memories of yahoo I still remember the voicemail yahoo yodel

[@crimsonnite9291]

@@fxshyy IOS is not a phone its an operating system. And Android has control of about 75% of the phones in the market right now, ios is not even close.

[@evaristegalois6282]

Yahoo crashed harder than my social life

[@rodigoduterte9192]

Yahoo crashed harder than my dream as well

[@jerry3790]

Not quite

[@xehP]

I’d say your social life crashed harder

[@tristanfour6233]

Evariste Galois Considering how average that comment was, I'd have to agree with you.

[@bitpumpkinn2923]

so not very hard? ;)

[@paddydowney6269]

Sweden not investing in Norway in the 1970s when offered, to help them get the oil out of the ground. A monster missed opportunity

[@sutherlandA1]

If they had sweden would be 85 billion richer

[@vladimirlenin843]

@@sutherlandA1 per year?

[@mumbaiviewer]

Saudi Arabia paid Swedish politicians in billions for not involving in Norwegian oil interest. Corrupted & drunken Swedish did the same what Saudi wanted them to do.

[@yohaneschristianp]

@@mumbaiviewer Where did you get that information from? Interesting

[@_Digitalguy]

What's interesting is not only that Yahoo missed the opportunity to buy google, but also that of being bought by Microsoft. Microsoft tried to buy them for around 50 billions to compete with google and they asked for more.... So MS turned them down, fortunately, as this would have ruined MS... A couple of years later they came back to MS offering them to be bought for I think 37bn but by that time MS didn't care anymore and was developing Bing (which by the ways makes 3bn a year...). Now even the 4.5bn Verizon spent for yahoo in 2017 have been written off to a large extent...

[@alexcastro7339]

Yahoo, AOL, MySpace, and Napster. All had the world in the palm of their hands, but ended up wiping them clean.

[@Irzani938]

Conclusion: yahoo was fallen because they stopped thinking the way users perceive it. That over-ads just ridiculous. Greedy at its best.

[@johnvonhorn2942]

I miss those early, internet days: Yahoo messenger, their web games. Had some good times with young Yahoo.

[@wick9462]

Make a video about Richard Branson ..... Virgin airlines and all

[@Sequaloid]

wick you make one

[@vishnuprasath014]

Yeah +business casuals should definitely make a video about him and his business !!

[@falconellirk901]

And Howard Hughes (y)

[@jzk2020]

@@Sequaloid Make me.

[@highandmightyqueen79]

im surprised they haven't cause he is so interesting

[@ChinmayDhumal]

Very nicely explained with picture depiction! This video deserves more views! Great job.

[@JustinY.]

If Yahoo bought Google, just imagine how different Google would have become.

[@rodigoduterte9192]

Hmmm.... can Content ID strikeabuse finally be repealed?

[@rzpogi]

Google would be weaker than what it is today. Sometimes, independence brings out the best in us.

[@hasanyigitsar6264]

I would give you an unoriginal reply about how I see you everywhere but I agree with what you said.

[@vooteimer1234]

Justin Y. It would be no different. All tech companies are naturally orwellian and the more power they get the more they will abuse it to achive 1984.

[@kohfee9967]

No SJW's?

[@emeraldvirgo]

I actually took your skillshare class and thought your voice sounded familiar in your youtube videos. Anyways, loved your lessons and it got me into stock trading as a side gig!

[@Arthurboy777]

I wonder who clickes on internet ads... i think i've never done it once in my whole life!

[@hasanyigitsar6264]

They do it accidentally mostly.

[@lars9943]

Advertising companies pay for having their Ads on a website in the first place, so user clicks just add up to the revenue. And like someone else said; most do it accidentally. But showing specific Ads over and over again can still influence people subconsciously, they can make a lot of people prefer or not prefer something (like a color, brand or person) by repeatedly displaying them in a certain way. A lot of Facebook's manipulative adds work this way.

[@saltysoysauce954]

@@FilipMolin grammarly?

[@A0pplePapple]

i do sometimes

[@natas4301]

Fake x buttons and pop-ups

[@WealthbuilderzTV]

Great video. I didn’t know that Yahoo had a chance to buy Google before it was google. Great informative video

[@asimellamo8411]

Excellent video. I learn something new every time

[@jeffreyplastics2056]

the best videos you provide bro thank you very much

[@uiuxshoaib]

Amazing video as always

[@Barca25644]

This was a great video I was always under the impression that. That Google beat Yahoo because of superior technology and algorithms even Warren Buffett in his talks gave that impression but you have described it in a very simple way to be otherwise Google simply beat Yahoo due to superior value for users and the economics of search engines seem soo simple after watching this video ....thank you

[@joemckim1183]

Yahoo failing to buy Google is similar to Blockbuster failing to purchase Netflix.

[@geoffrey-rf7pg]

This channel is so underrated, it should have millions of subscribers.

[@Pathos991]

Felix @ 5:05 This was a harder one to find.

[@janae4345]

I've just been binging your videos🤗

[@skeynejad]

Love you videos, would love to see a video on Adobe!

[@JustinZaf]

Love your videos

[@xelefonte]

I can’t remember the last time I used Yahoo as a search engineer...2002? No back then I had already switched to AltaVista. Today, Yahoo is reduced to nothing more a social news page for celebrity gossip and rumors...it’s basically white leople’s WorldStarHipGop.

[@sumitkumarverma8254]

If only they have used skillshare.. ok nevermind

[@claudiagalindo1218]

Great job on the video

[@phineas6268]

Google actually went to Excite to sell themselves in 1999 but Excite rejected it it. Imagine that

[@dh4444]

Imagine the feeling they get in 2020 Remembering time you rejected the offer

[@Augustus98]

I was waiting for ur video

[@satishpatnaik8357]

I love Ur videos *business**casuals*

[@abhinavaditya9433]

I miss the times when Yahoo was competently famous

[@Omar-em7rl]

and AOL, and MSN. i remember watching the butterfly flap it's colorful wings for about 2 minutes while it made those funky internet sounds, then 30 seconds later my mom yelling as to why her call just dropped.. then searching on Ask Jeeves.

[@sanjeevm]

I would prefer Google over Yahoo any day! Google deserves its success!

[@advancetotabletop5328]

A very well-explained video. I guess I still don't get Yahoo vs. Google because I use my url field to search, and find both Google's and Yahoo's ad's to be intrusive! :/

[@ytanonymity3585]

Yahoo vs Google vs Bing vs MSN 🤔

[@hasrulwayne]

Brilliant! BC if you may do for Oath. Would be interesting.

[@Valentinebeats]

Crazy vibes!

[@pikachucodm8817]

You're the only one here in 2021 lul

[@jacurutu6888]

Love the video, though I find the music a fair bit distracting

[@Bambamni]

Wow great vid

[@lowcielva6285]

Pay attention to your competitors and take an action before they got bigger enough to surpass you.

[@poochyenarulez]

I can't imagine being offered $3 billion and turning that down.

[@dh4444]

Greed?

[@per41495]

I kept laughing my ass of at that pronounciaton "yeah-hoo"

[@dosmastrify]

Yach-who

[@brokkrep]

Just say Juhui!

[@ninx404]

Hacoo

[@yaameenmohamed6361]

@Business Casual it would be great to see a video about the dot-com bubble and its crash.

[@lilrask9464]

Love this guy's accent! 'Yakhoo' ! 😂

[@cyrlangaming]

You know, if Yahoo bought many Google. they will apply what Yahoo's feature the banner ads to Google right? From the start, Yahoo already fails even they got Googl, and someone will create what is Google right now with a different name.

[@tengkusulaiman]

I only use YM back then. Email space was too low. Then moved to gmail.

[@krod1369]

Thanks for the videos, plse keep em coming #2019

[@niftyifty]

I followed your link to sign up for skill share and it won't let me view your content. That's unfortunate. Thanks anyways good stuff as always.

[@uniqhnd23]

Can please cover a company that actually cares about its users? Something like DuckDuckGo, Brave, Signal, Telegram or maybe the Mozilla Foundation. It would be a very interesting topic and they have very interesting stories. Also showing people there are other options than companies that turn their life into currency. Great video though Edit: ProtonMail as well.

[@detailsmove]

ORO 0147 Mozilla would be an intriguing one

[@uniqhnd23]

@Dennis ten Hoove Ohh yeah totally forgot about Linux haha

[@overpowered5919]

How do you suppose they get profit? Duckduckgo use anonymity as a differentiating factor. They don`t care about you. For any company, users are numbers. Google does many charitable things and are innovating. I am not blind, they DO doge taxes but which large corporation doesn`t? I see too much negativity. Are people just bored on picking o apple?

[@uniqhnd23]

@@overpowered5919 And no. Also, I used to hate Apple a lot, but after realising that they value privacy just a bit more than the rest of the billion dollar companies, I don't dislike them that much. And of course we'll hate Google. They've made privacy today living hell. Of course Facebook is equally as bad and there are other companies as well. We're not cherry picking our choices. This is no bandwagon. You've just not realised for these past couple of years how bad this situation has gotten.

[@overpowered5919]

@@uniqhnd23 I can assure you I do, but I think that people are being manipulated buy news outlets ( paid to negatively potray google and facebook ). Know that media companies have an incentive to antagonise google and the likes as there are taking market share. Sure privacy isn`t great, but when has it been? The reason you think that it seems to have gotten even worse is beacause there has been more focus on it. If it isn`t google then it will be twitter, microsoft or someone else. I would rather prefer it to be google. Btw, I don`t particularly favour any of the tech company over the other but the way you put it is like google is doing something that is abnormal.

[@georgerianestillero5548]

Make a video about mergers and acquisition

[@hereforthecomments2418]

Google it! just flows better off the tongue than Yahoo! It 😂

[@DynamicCash]

bing it!

[@hereforthecomments2418]

luckydice bing isn’t in this documentary now is it?

[@sib113]

MSN it

[@kittycake1294]

Internet Explorer it!

[@ravitejaknts]

Then we might call it " DO Yahoo"

[@feynman9959]

Yahoo! A new video!

[@mechajay3358]

_Pretty much the only uses I heard people use Yahoo for nowadays is for Email._

[@cryptodigital7772]

Very interesting .

[@ScareFestTTV]

Happy New Year!

[@osmanghalid9452]

U to

[@RobinP93]

I live in Sweden and use Google, KZbin, Android and Google Maps everyday. Best company in the world 👍

[@bluespawner2119]

If Yahoo bought Google, then Google wouldn't become the company it is today with all the services. We would be in worse place today

[@Kbxbigbro808]

How do u know exactly tho ?

[@falconellirk901]

Make a video about Howard Hughes

[@ln806]

This video analysis content is great, but It is easy to look "wise" seeing from the hindsight....

[@SweetComputing]

And now we are watching this video on a google product, amazing.

[@Farzi.motivation1]

But What other option did Yahoo had other than declining the purchase of Google on the first deal? Their reason was fair enough to decline that purchase,I guess. Was there really any other way?

[@Barca25644]

Where did you get this information which books

[@naufalap]

Moral of every video: not innovating and stopping qol improvement for users are bad decisions.

[@Anirossa]

Suprised Nintendo didn't sue Yahoo! for stealing Super Mario's phrase

[@geromeoyuhico8293]

lol

[@OpEditorial]

A video about the guy who invented AdBlock would be an interesting one

[@emmalisatilli9784]

Gosh a computer from the 90’s!

[@ChrisD2019]

You guys should do how Disney became such a big company

[@inatus_s]

You should do a video on carl icahn

[@chrisgarcia9003]

Hey, when I clicked your link for skillshare and started my free trial, it said that your profile is private, what can I do to get access to it?

[@BusinessCasual]

Oops, sorry for that. It should be public now!

[@chrisgarcia9003]

@@BusinessCasual thank you!

[@sherlanbrown2116]

Thank you. The writer of Yahoo! Sherlan Elizabeth Brown.

[@souissi1]

The right decision In the right timing

[@door-to-doorhentaisalesman2978]

Please do a history of Samsung.

[@AADIBAWA]

coldfusion has covered it

[@crazyhq270]

I miss the directories. Both google and yahoo. Sometimes you just don't know what to search for and want to explore.

[@seexzavierfilms]

its just so hard for people to have fore and insight.

[@manojuniversity8044]

in 2009 I went for an interview asked for an opportunity but they behaved very rudely I was very disappointed that day but today they are in bottom currently.

[@hardrock342]

Please make a video on opera

[@khansakib9167]

Hello. Can you please make a video on DeBeers Diamond Company?

[@sakthinandhan9528]

Do a video on Amazon please

[@Sugam098]

Sometimes failure is much more important than success for mankind

[@Joey76767]

This makes me wonder if there will ever be another huge internet company and google will die out...

[@versus3780]

This guy would compete Linus in Spenser segways !!

[@_nom_]

Remember Yahoo music! Before KZbin.

[@Krissy143]

wdym failed? whenever i search from google it automatically changes to yahoo

[@jirijaneba5586]

Hey do you do video about commodore pls

[@crystalyeowchingching1036]

Humble people.

[@rahulkhandelwal6493]

Sir your video is very good.due to lack of money i can not afford your best course.thanks a lot sir.

[@dosmastrify]

Let the ads play then

[@osmanghalid9452]

@@dosmastrify 😂

[@calvinyvin8873]

Please do LVMH

[@victornderu143]

Lesson from the story, Take your opportunities when you have them.

[@hippa2dahoppa2]

ah excite, good old vp chat

[@beefchillingham6790]

The way you say yahoo sounds like “Yeah who”

[@menaseven9093]

I was introduce to the internet in the 1990s by using Yahoo search engine on a public computer inside a library. Because of that today I use both Yahoo and Google. Yahoo still have hundred of million users worldwide. Google learned from Yahoo banner adds mistake and created a better search engine. There is no way Google owners would have sold or merged with Yahoo in the second negotiation after winning the search engine war. The unacceptable $5 billion ( 5 symbol of death) by Google was a clever way to say no to Yahoo.

[@payelchatterjee4655]

Please make a video on UFC

[@yonisupersaiyanyoni3693]

Do you control your commercials i just watch to support but can you put shorter commercials?

[@DesGardius-me7gf]

YAHOO EXEC 1: Maybe we should improve out business model? CONSUELA: No... no. YAHOO EXEC 2: Improve our original content? CONSUELA: No... no. YAHOO EXEC 3: So, we have no corporate identity? CONSUELA: We secondary Email people use to sign up for porn sites.

[@basicsbaldi8590]

i quit google becuse yahoo showing up when i searching i starting useing opera or minicrosft edge

[@andrewo8184]

We don't know what would happen with Google if Yahoo bought it. It may be as good as it's now or better/worse. There are just too many possible scenarios that could happen. The Google part in Yahoo may be worth even less than 5 billion nowadays.

[@riyoal6189]

the day they stopped yahoo chat was the start of the end for yahoo, now no yahoo messenger died meat

[@zoefofo7769]

Well I cant really blame yahoo. They probably couldn't imagine google being worth that much today. It's amazing how you can beat someone

[@theroaria8065]

Catboy Felix for sale at 5:06

[@DreadfullMind]

Do you remember the early days when to create a gmail account you had to be invited?

[@phillip_iv_planetking6354]

These are old stories learned people know about