TameBear: Big IdeasBrainstorms for a better tomorrow. A TameBear weblog.(Untitled)- January 19, 2007 How Yahoo Blew It: In 2002 Yahoo had a chance to buy Google for $5 billion. Didn't happen - Yahoo CEO Terry Semel thought that was too much to pay, and bought Overture instead. This tale of the text-ad-against-search competition between the two search giants, Yahoo and Google, focuses on the relative merits of deals and marketing vs. engineering and technology. In the winner-takes-all ecosystem of the global net, has second place become last place Wired Newshttp://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/ideas/2007/01/19.html#a823 |