How Yahoo Failed to Buy Google (Twice!)

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  • Опубликовано: 12 июн 2024
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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
    @KyleLi 5 лет назад +809

    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
      @anthonygore-au 5 лет назад +74

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

    • @paulocuento9949
      @paulocuento9949 5 лет назад +24

      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
      @ElCazador66 5 лет назад +6

      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
      @lu881 5 лет назад

      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
      @roborich7793 5 лет назад

      Cheers mate!

  • @detailsmove
    @detailsmove 5 лет назад +437

    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
      @jzk2020 5 лет назад +26

      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
      @lool12366 5 лет назад +5

      It could possibly be bigger as well.

    • @fxshyy
      @fxshyy 4 года назад +3

      iOS would be the most successful phone.

    • @skelworthvods984
      @skelworthvods984 4 года назад

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

    • @crimsonnite9291
      @crimsonnite9291 4 года назад +1

      @@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
    @evaristegalois6282 5 лет назад +408

    Yahoo crashed harder than my social life

    • @rodigoduterte9192
      @rodigoduterte9192 5 лет назад +6

      Yahoo crashed harder than my dream as well

    • @jerry3790
      @jerry3790 5 лет назад +8

      Not quite

    • @xehP
      @xehP 5 лет назад +5

      I’d say your social life crashed harder

    • @tristanfour6233
      @tristanfour6233 5 лет назад +2

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

    • @bitpumpkinn2923
      @bitpumpkinn2923 5 лет назад +2

      so not very hard? ;)

  • @JustinY.
    @JustinY. 5 лет назад +563

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

    • @rodigoduterte9192
      @rodigoduterte9192 5 лет назад +12

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 can Content ID strikeabuse finally be repealed?

    • @rzpogi
      @rzpogi 5 лет назад +55

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

    • @hasanyigitsar6264
      @hasanyigitsar6264 5 лет назад +16

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

    • @vooteimer1234
      @vooteimer1234 5 лет назад +2

      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
      @kohfee9967 5 лет назад +2

      No SJW's?

  • @paddydowney6269
    @paddydowney6269 5 лет назад +86

    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
      @sutherlandA1 5 лет назад +15

      If they had sweden would be 85 billion richer

    • @vladimirlenin843
      @vladimirlenin843 4 года назад +2

      @@sutherlandA1 per year?

    • @mumbaiviewer
      @mumbaiviewer 3 года назад +2

      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
      @yohaneschristianp 3 года назад +2

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

  • @Irzani938
    @Irzani938 5 лет назад +20

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

  • @alexcastro7339
    @alexcastro7339 5 лет назад +17

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

  • @_Digitalguy
    @_Digitalguy 5 лет назад +23

    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...

  • @wick9462
    @wick9462 5 лет назад +156

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

    • @Sequaloid
      @Sequaloid 5 лет назад +3

      wick you make one

    • @vishnuprasath014
      @vishnuprasath014 5 лет назад

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

    • @falconellirk901
      @falconellirk901 5 лет назад +3

      And Howard Hughes (y)

    • @jzk2020
      @jzk2020 5 лет назад

      @@Sequaloid Make me.

    • @highandmightyqueen79
      @highandmightyqueen79 5 лет назад

      im surprised they haven't cause he is so interesting

  • @johnvonhorn2942
    @johnvonhorn2942 2 года назад +2

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

  • @Arthurboy777
    @Arthurboy777 5 лет назад +110

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

    • @hasanyigitsar6264
      @hasanyigitsar6264 5 лет назад +32

      They do it accidentally mostly.

    • @lars9943
      @lars9943 5 лет назад +19

      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
      @saltysoysauce954 5 лет назад +4

      @@FilipMolin grammarly?

    • @A0pplePapple
      @A0pplePapple 5 лет назад

      i do sometimes

    • @natas4301
      @natas4301 5 лет назад +1

      Fake x buttons and pop-ups

  • @ChinmayDhumal
    @ChinmayDhumal 5 лет назад +1

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

  • @phineas6268
    @phineas6268 5 лет назад +11

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

    • @dh4444
      @dh4444 3 года назад +3

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

  • @Pathos991
    @Pathos991 5 лет назад +17

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

  • @emeraldvirgo
    @emeraldvirgo 5 лет назад +4

    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!

  • @abhinavaditya9433
    @abhinavaditya9433 5 лет назад +24

    I miss the times when Yahoo was competently famous

    • @Omar-em7rl
      @Omar-em7rl 5 лет назад +5

      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.

  • @joemckim1183
    @joemckim1183 2 года назад +6

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

  • @jeffreyplastics2056
    @jeffreyplastics2056 5 лет назад +1

    the best videos you provide bro thank you very much

  • @asimellamo8411
    @asimellamo8411 4 года назад +1

    Excellent video. I learn something new every time

  • @sumitkumarverma8254
    @sumitkumarverma8254 5 лет назад +46

    If only they have used skillshare.. ok nevermind

  • @WealthbuilderzTV
    @WealthbuilderzTV 5 лет назад +10

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

  • @Valentinebeats
    @Valentinebeats 3 года назад +15

    Crazy vibes!

  • @poochyenarulez
    @poochyenarulez 5 лет назад +7

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

    • @dh4444
      @dh4444 3 года назад +3

      Greed?

  • @geoffrey-rf7pg
    @geoffrey-rf7pg 5 лет назад

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

  • @xelefonte
    @xelefonte 5 лет назад +6

    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.

  • @uiuxshoaib
    @uiuxshoaib 5 лет назад +2

    Amazing video as always

  • @Barca25644
    @Barca25644 5 лет назад +10

    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

  • @janae4345
    @janae4345 4 года назад +1

    I've just been binging your videos🤗

  • @skeynejad
    @skeynejad 5 лет назад +1

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

  • @JustinZaf
    @JustinZaf 5 лет назад

    Love your videos

  • @hasrulwayne
    @hasrulwayne 5 лет назад

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

  • @sanjeevm
    @sanjeevm 5 лет назад +24

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

  • @satishpatnaik8357
    @satishpatnaik8357 5 лет назад +2

    I love Ur videos *business**casuals*

  • @claudiagalindo1218
    @claudiagalindo1218 5 лет назад

    Great job on the video

  • @lowcielva6285
    @lowcielva6285 3 года назад +2

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

  • @advancetotabletop5328
    @advancetotabletop5328 5 лет назад +1

    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! :/

  • @tengkusulaiman
    @tengkusulaiman 2 года назад

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

  • @uniqhnd23
    @uniqhnd23 5 лет назад +154

    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
      @detailsmove 5 лет назад +18

      ORO 0147 Mozilla would be an intriguing one

    • @uniqhnd23
      @uniqhnd23 5 лет назад +2

      @Dennis ten Hoove Ohh yeah totally forgot about Linux haha

    • @overpowered5919
      @overpowered5919 5 лет назад +9

      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
      @uniqhnd23 5 лет назад +9

      @@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
      @overpowered5919 5 лет назад +4

      @@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.

  • @yaameenmohamed6361
    @yaameenmohamed6361 4 года назад

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

  • @bluespawner2119
    @bluespawner2119 5 лет назад +6

    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

  • @jacurutu6888
    @jacurutu6888 5 лет назад

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

  • @cyrlangaming
    @cyrlangaming 5 лет назад +1

    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.

  • @georgerianestillero5548
    @georgerianestillero5548 5 лет назад +1

    Make a video about mergers and acquisition

  • @Augustus98
    @Augustus98 5 лет назад +1

    I was waiting for ur video

  • @lilrask9464
    @lilrask9464 5 лет назад +1

    Love this guy's accent! 'Yakhoo' ! 😂

  • @per41495
    @per41495 5 лет назад +31

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

  • @hereforthecomments2418
    @hereforthecomments2418 5 лет назад +38

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

  • @Anirossa
    @Anirossa 5 лет назад +4

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

  • @ScareFestTTV
    @ScareFestTTV 5 лет назад +2

    Happy New Year!

  • @chrisgarcia9003
    @chrisgarcia9003 5 лет назад +4

    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?

  • @cryptodigital7772
    @cryptodigital7772 2 года назад

    Very interesting .

  • @door-to-doorhentaisalesman2978
    @door-to-doorhentaisalesman2978 5 лет назад +38

    Please do a history of Samsung.

    • @AADIBAWA
      @AADIBAWA 3 года назад

      coldfusion has covered it

  • @khansakib9167
    @khansakib9167 5 лет назад

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

  • @Barca25644
    @Barca25644 5 лет назад

    Where did you get this information which books

  • @falconellirk901
    @falconellirk901 5 лет назад +1

    Make a video about Howard Hughes

  • @niftyifty
    @niftyifty 5 лет назад

    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.

  • @ChrisD2019
    @ChrisD2019 5 лет назад

    You guys should do how Disney became such a big company

  • @Bambamni
    @Bambamni 2 года назад

    Wow great vid

  • @Farzi.motivation1
    @Farzi.motivation1 5 лет назад

    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?

  • @SweetComputing
    @SweetComputing 5 лет назад +1

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

  • @feynman9959
    @feynman9959 5 лет назад +1

    Yahoo! A new video!

  • @RobinP93
    @RobinP93 5 лет назад +2

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

  • @OpEditorial
    @OpEditorial 4 года назад

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

  • @krod1369
    @krod1369 5 лет назад

    Thanks for the videos, plse keep em coming #2019

  • @mechajay3358
    @mechajay3358 5 лет назад +1

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

  • @seexzavierfilms
    @seexzavierfilms 2 года назад

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

  • @jirijaneba5586
    @jirijaneba5586 5 лет назад

    Hey do you do video about commodore pls

  • @crazyhq270
    @crazyhq270 5 лет назад

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

  • @manojuniversity8044
    @manojuniversity8044 5 лет назад

    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.

  • @emmalisatilli9784
    @emmalisatilli9784 5 лет назад +1

    Gosh a computer from the 90’s!

  • @ln806
    @ln806 5 лет назад

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

  • @Krissy143
    @Krissy143 3 года назад

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

  • @Joey76767
    @Joey76767 5 лет назад +1

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

  • @inatus_s
    @inatus_s 5 лет назад +1

    You should do a video on carl icahn

  • @naufalap
    @naufalap 5 лет назад +1

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

  • @sherlanbrown2116
    @sherlanbrown2116 3 года назад

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

  • @souissi1
    @souissi1 4 года назад +1

    The right decision
    In the right timing

  • @Sugam098
    @Sugam098 5 лет назад

    Sometimes failure is much more important than success for mankind

  • @hardrock342
    @hardrock342 5 лет назад +8

    Please make a video on opera

  • @sakthinandhan9528
    @sakthinandhan9528 5 лет назад

    Do a video on Amazon please

  • @calvinyvin8873
    @calvinyvin8873 5 лет назад

    Please do LVMH

  • @versus3780
    @versus3780 3 года назад

    This guy would compete Linus in Spenser segways !!

  • @DreadfullMind
    @DreadfullMind 2 года назад

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

  • @hippa2dahoppa2
    @hippa2dahoppa2 4 года назад +1

    ah excite, good old vp chat

  • @theroaria8065
    @theroaria8065 5 лет назад

    Catboy Felix for sale at 5:06

  • @beefchillingham6790
    @beefchillingham6790 4 года назад +1

    The way you say yahoo sounds like “Yeah who”

  • @basicsbaldi8590
    @basicsbaldi8590 5 лет назад +1

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

  • @yonisupersaiyanyoni3693
    @yonisupersaiyanyoni3693 4 года назад

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

  • @starkasset4211
    @starkasset4211 5 лет назад

    Is SRK the background voice in this video?

  • @crystalyeowchingching1036
    @crystalyeowchingching1036 3 года назад

    Humble people.

  • @victornderu143
    @victornderu143 5 лет назад +2

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

  • @rahulkhandelwal6493
    @rahulkhandelwal6493 5 лет назад +16

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

  • @payelchatterjee4655
    @payelchatterjee4655 5 лет назад

    Please make a video on UFC

  • @_nom_
    @_nom_ 3 года назад +1

    Remember Yahoo music! Before RUclips.

  • @fitnesspoint2006
    @fitnesspoint2006 5 лет назад

    what is yaaho?

  • @lukababilodze4283
    @lukababilodze4283 5 лет назад +10

    It breaks my heart when I hear about Yahoo

  • @riyoal6189
    @riyoal6189 5 лет назад +1

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

  • @Bruno-nn6ut
    @Bruno-nn6ut 5 лет назад

    Could you please do IKEA next?

  • @zoefofo7769
    @zoefofo7769 5 лет назад

    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