How Yahoo Failed to Buy Google (Twice!)

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  • Опубліковано 9 чер 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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КОМЕНТАРІ • 391

  • @BusinessCasual
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  • @KyleLi
    @KyleLi 5 років тому +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 років тому +74

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

    • @paulocuento9949
      @paulocuento9949 5 років тому +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 років тому +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 років тому

      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 років тому

      Cheers mate!

  • @detailsmove
    @detailsmove 5 років тому +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 років тому +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 років тому +5

      It could possibly be bigger as well.

    • @fxshyy
      @fxshyy 4 роки тому +3

      iOS would be the most successful phone.

    • @skelworthvods984
      @skelworthvods984 4 роки тому

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

    • @crimsonnite9291
      @crimsonnite9291 4 роки тому +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 років тому +408

    Yahoo crashed harder than my social life

    • @rodigoduterte9192
      @rodigoduterte9192 5 років тому +6

      Yahoo crashed harder than my dream as well

    • @jerry3790
      @jerry3790 5 років тому +8

      Not quite

    • @xehP
      @xehP 5 років тому +5

      I’d say your social life crashed harder

    • @tristanfour6233
      @tristanfour6233 5 років тому +2

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

    • @bitpumpkinn2923
      @bitpumpkinn2923 5 років тому +2

      so not very hard? ;)

  • @JustinY.
    @JustinY. 5 років тому +563

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

    • @rodigoduterte9192
      @rodigoduterte9192 5 років тому +12

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 can Content ID strikeabuse finally be repealed?

    • @rzpogi
      @rzpogi 5 років тому +55

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

    • @hasanyigitsar6264
      @hasanyigitsar6264 5 років тому +16

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

    • @vooteimer1234
      @vooteimer1234 5 років тому +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 років тому +2

      No SJW's?

  • @paddydowney6269
    @paddydowney6269 5 років тому +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 років тому +15

      If they had sweden would be 85 billion richer

    • @vladimirlenin843
      @vladimirlenin843 4 роки тому +2

      @@sutherlandA1 per year?

    • @mumbaiviewer
      @mumbaiviewer 3 роки тому +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 роки тому +2

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

  • @Irzani938
    @Irzani938 5 років тому +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 років тому +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 років тому +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 років тому +156

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

    • @Sequaloid
      @Sequaloid 5 років тому +3

      wick you make one

    • @vishnuprasath014
      @vishnuprasath014 5 років тому

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

    • @falconellirk901
      @falconellirk901 5 років тому +3

      And Howard Hughes (y)

    • @jzk2020
      @jzk2020 5 років тому

      @@Sequaloid Make me.

    • @highandmightyqueen79
      @highandmightyqueen79 5 років тому

      im surprised they haven't cause he is so interesting

  • @johnvonhorn2942
    @johnvonhorn2942 2 роки тому +2

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

  • @Arthurboy777
    @Arthurboy777 5 років тому +110

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

    • @hasanyigitsar6264
      @hasanyigitsar6264 5 років тому +32

      They do it accidentally mostly.

    • @lars9943
      @lars9943 5 років тому +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 років тому +4

      @@FilipMolin grammarly?

    • @A0pplePapple
      @A0pplePapple 5 років тому

      i do sometimes

    • @natas4301
      @natas4301 5 років тому +1

      Fake x buttons and pop-ups

  • @ChinmayDhumal
    @ChinmayDhumal 5 років тому +1

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

  • @phineas6268
    @phineas6268 5 років тому +11

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

    • @dh4444
      @dh4444 3 роки тому +3

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

  • @Pathos991
    @Pathos991 5 років тому +17

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

  • @emeraldvirgo
    @emeraldvirgo 5 років тому +4

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  • @abhinavaditya9433
    @abhinavaditya9433 5 років тому +24

    I miss the times when Yahoo was competently famous

    • @Omar-em7rl
      @Omar-em7rl 5 років тому +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 роки тому +6

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

  • @jeffreyplastics2056
    @jeffreyplastics2056 5 років тому +1

    the best videos you provide bro thank you very much

  • @asimellamo8411
    @asimellamo8411 4 роки тому +1

    Excellent video. I learn something new every time

  • @sumitkumarverma8254
    @sumitkumarverma8254 5 років тому +46

    If only they have used skillshare.. ok nevermind

  • @WealthbuilderzTV
    @WealthbuilderzTV 5 років тому +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 роки тому +15

    Crazy vibes!

  • @poochyenarulez
    @poochyenarulez 5 років тому +7

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

    • @dh4444
      @dh4444 3 роки тому +3

      Greed?

  • @geoffrey-rf7pg
    @geoffrey-rf7pg 5 років тому

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

  • @xelefonte
    @xelefonte 5 років тому +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 років тому +2

    Amazing video as always

  • @Barca25644
    @Barca25644 5 років тому +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 роки тому +1

    I've just been binging your videos🤗

  • @skeynejad
    @skeynejad 5 років тому +1

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

  • @JustinZaf
    @JustinZaf 5 років тому

    Love your videos

  • @hasrulwayne
    @hasrulwayne 5 років тому

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

  • @sanjeevm
    @sanjeevm 5 років тому +24

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

  • @claudiagalindo1218
    @claudiagalindo1218 5 років тому

    Great job on the video

  • @satishpatnaik8357
    @satishpatnaik8357 5 років тому +2

    I love Ur videos *business**casuals*

  • @lowcielva6285
    @lowcielva6285 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @advancetotabletop5328
    @advancetotabletop5328 5 років тому +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 роки тому

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

  • @uniqhnd23
    @uniqhnd23 5 років тому +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 років тому +18

      ORO 0147 Mozilla would be an intriguing one

    • @uniqhnd23
      @uniqhnd23 5 років тому +2

      @Dennis ten Hoove Ohh yeah totally forgot about Linux haha

    • @overpowered5919
      @overpowered5919 5 років тому +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 років тому +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 років тому +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 роки тому

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

  • @bluespawner2119
    @bluespawner2119 5 років тому +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 років тому

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

  • @cyrlangaming
    @cyrlangaming 5 років тому +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 років тому +1

    Make a video about mergers and acquisition

  • @Augustus98
    @Augustus98 5 років тому +1

    I was waiting for ur video

  • @lilrask9464
    @lilrask9464 5 років тому +1

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

  • @per41495
    @per41495 5 років тому +31

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

  • @hereforthecomments2418
    @hereforthecomments2418 5 років тому +38

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

  • @Anirossa
    @Anirossa 5 років тому +4

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

  • @ScareFestTTV
    @ScareFestTTV 5 років тому +2

    Happy New Year!

  • @chrisgarcia9003
    @chrisgarcia9003 5 років тому +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 роки тому

    Very interesting .

  • @door-to-doorhentaisalesman2978
    @door-to-doorhentaisalesman2978 5 років тому +38

    Please do a history of Samsung.

    • @AADIBAWA
      @AADIBAWA 3 роки тому

      coldfusion has covered it

  • @Barca25644
    @Barca25644 5 років тому

    Where did you get this information which books

  • @khansakib9167
    @khansakib9167 5 років тому

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

  • @falconellirk901
    @falconellirk901 5 років тому +1

    Make a video about Howard Hughes

  • @niftyifty
    @niftyifty 5 років тому

    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 років тому

    You guys should do how Disney became such a big company

  • @Bambamni
    @Bambamni 2 роки тому

    Wow great vid

  • @Farzi.motivation1
    @Farzi.motivation1 5 років тому

    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 років тому +1

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

  • @feynman9959
    @feynman9959 5 років тому +1

    Yahoo! A new video!

  • @RobinP93
    @RobinP93 5 років тому +2

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

  • @krod1369
    @krod1369 5 років тому

    Thanks for the videos, plse keep em coming #2019

  • @OpEditorial
    @OpEditorial 4 роки тому

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

  • @mechajay3358
    @mechajay3358 5 років тому +1

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

  • @seexzavierfilms
    @seexzavierfilms 2 роки тому

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

  • @jirijaneba5586
    @jirijaneba5586 5 років тому

    Hey do you do video about commodore pls

  • @crazyhq270
    @crazyhq270 5 років тому

    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 років тому

    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 років тому +1

    Gosh a computer from the 90’s!

  • @ln806
    @ln806 5 років тому

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

  • @Krissy143
    @Krissy143 3 роки тому

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

  • @Joey76767
    @Joey76767 5 років тому +1

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

  • @inatus_s
    @inatus_s 5 років тому +1

    You should do a video on carl icahn

  • @naufalap
    @naufalap 5 років тому +1

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

  • @sherlanbrown2116
    @sherlanbrown2116 3 роки тому

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

  • @souissi1
    @souissi1 4 роки тому +1

    The right decision
    In the right timing

  • @hardrock342
    @hardrock342 5 років тому +8

    Please make a video on opera

  • @Sugam098
    @Sugam098 5 років тому

    Sometimes failure is much more important than success for mankind

  • @sakthinandhan9528
    @sakthinandhan9528 5 років тому

    Do a video on Amazon please

  • @calvinyvin8873
    @calvinyvin8873 5 років тому

    Please do LVMH

  • @versus3780
    @versus3780 3 роки тому

    This guy would compete Linus in Spenser segways !!

  • @DreadfullMind
    @DreadfullMind 2 роки тому

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

  • @hippa2dahoppa2
    @hippa2dahoppa2 4 роки тому +1

    ah excite, good old vp chat

  • @theroaria8065
    @theroaria8065 5 років тому

    Catboy Felix for sale at 5:06

  • @beefchillingham6790
    @beefchillingham6790 4 роки тому +1

    The way you say yahoo sounds like “Yeah who”

  • @basicsbaldi8590
    @basicsbaldi8590 5 років тому +1

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

  • @yonisupersaiyanyoni3693
    @yonisupersaiyanyoni3693 4 роки тому

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

  • @starkasset4211
    @starkasset4211 5 років тому

    Is SRK the background voice in this video?

  • @crystalyeowchingching1036
    @crystalyeowchingching1036 3 роки тому

    Humble people.

  • @rahulkhandelwal6493
    @rahulkhandelwal6493 5 років тому +16

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

  • @victornderu143
    @victornderu143 5 років тому +2

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

  • @payelchatterjee4655
    @payelchatterjee4655 5 років тому

    Please make a video on UFC

  • @_nom_
    @_nom_ 3 роки тому +1

    Remember Yahoo music! Before UA-cam.

  • @fitnesspoint2006
    @fitnesspoint2006 5 років тому

    what is yaaho?

  • @lukababilodze4283
    @lukababilodze4283 5 років тому +10

    It breaks my heart when I hear about Yahoo

  • @riyoal6189
    @riyoal6189 5 років тому +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 років тому

    Could you please do IKEA next?

  • @zoefofo7769
    @zoefofo7769 5 років тому

    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