In 1999, Google wanted to sell out to Excite for $1M - GoFuckYourself.com

mce · 03-18-2017, 09:41 PM

and Excite turned them down....

Excite who?

https://techcrunch.com/2010/09/29/google-excite/

mozadek · 03-18-2017, 09:59 PM

They also wanted to sell to Yahoo.

marlboroack · 03-18-2017, 11:58 PM

I'd pay 1M for google

PornDiscounts-V · 03-19-2017, 01:26 AM

Yes, but then nothing would have happened innovation wise.

rogueteens · 03-19-2017, 02:13 AM

Google only grew because it was in the right hands, if other people directed Yahoo we might never have heard of google.

seeandsee · 03-19-2017, 04:03 AM

google became google later...

freecartoonporn · 03-19-2017, 05:42 AM

so who made google , google ?

NakedWomenTime · 03-19-2017, 05:42 AM

Hindsight is a fine thing. Not an obvious decision at the time.

john1975 · 03-19-2017, 06:57 AM

They rejected because they had no more money left from the other crappy deals / companies they also turned to stone. Like WebCrawler. Everything George Bell touched...Turned to stone.

Those were the days when Alta Vista search engine was top sht. It's crawling mechanisms were considered better than Google and Yahoo by most webmasters . It really was a good search engine, before they continued to nerf it.

john1975 · 03-19-2017, 07:05 AM

They (Google) actually came back again and said 750k...And George Bell threw them out of the office. Look it up.

Busty2 · 03-19-2017, 07:17 AM

Lycos could have been a force to be reckoned with had it not been for bad business decisions ?

Lycos was a university spin-off that began as a research project by Michael Loren Mauldin of Carnegie Mellon University's main Pittsburgh campus in 1994. Lycos Inc. was formed with approximately US $2 million ($3.2 million today) in venture capital funding from CMGI. Bob Davis became the CEO and first employee of the new company in 1995, and concentrated on building the company into an advertising-supported web portal. Lycos enjoyed several years of growth during the 1990s and became the most visited online destination in the world in 1999, with a global presence in more than 40 countries

In 1996, the company completed the fastest IPO from inception to offering in NASDAQ history. In 1997, it became one of the first profitable internet businesses in the world. In 1998, Lycos paid $58 million ($85.2 million today) for Tripod in an attempt to "break into the portal market."[7] Over the course of the next few years, Lycos acquired nearly two dozen internet brands including Gamesville, WhoWhere, Wired Digital (eventually sold to Wired), Quote.com, Angelfire, Matchmaker.com and Raging Bull.

Lycos Europe was a joint venture between Lycos and the Bertelsmann transnational media corporation, but it has always been a distinct corporate entity. Although Lycos Europe remains the largest of Lycos's overseas ventures, several other companies also entered into joint venture agreements including Lycos Canada, Lycos Korea and Lycos Asia.

Near the peak of the internet bubble on May 16, 2000, Lycos announced its intent to be acquired by Terra Networks, the internet arm of the Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica, for $12.5 billion ($18.0 billion today).[9] The acquisition price represented a return of nearly 3000 times the company's initial venture capital investment and about 20 times its initial public offering valuation.

Lycos, Inc.; currently according to Boston Better Business Bureau holds & has maintained an "F" rating due to large numbers of customer complaints and Lycos, Inc. failure to respond to customer complaints, as well as fraudulent use of the BBB's logo on Tripod's payment page. Lycos, Angelfire and Tripod are not accredited by the Better Business Bureau as they claimed and is substantiated by the Better Business Bureau on Lycos' company listing.

john1975 · 03-19-2017, 07:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Busty2

Lycos could have been a force to be reckoned with had it not been for bad business decisions ?

Lycos was a university spin-off that began as a research project by Michael Loren Mauldin of Carnegie Mellon University's main Pittsburgh campus in 1994. Lycos Inc. was formed with approximately US $2 million ($3.2 million today) in venture capital funding from CMGI. Bob Davis became the CEO and first employee of the new company in 1995, and concentrated on building the company into an advertising-supported web portal. Lycos enjoyed several years of growth during the 1990s and became the most visited online destination in the world in 1999, with a global presence in more than 40 countries

In 1996, the company completed the fastest IPO from inception to offering in NASDAQ history. In 1997, it became one of the first profitable internet businesses in the world. In 1998, Lycos paid $58 million ($85.2 million today) for Tripod in an attempt to "break into the portal market."[7] Over the course of the next few years, Lycos acquired nearly two dozen internet brands including Gamesville, WhoWhere, Wired Digital (eventually sold to Wired), Quote.com, Angelfire, Matchmaker.com and Raging Bull.

Lycos Europe was a joint venture between Lycos and the Bertelsmann transnational media corporation, but it has always been a distinct corporate entity. Although Lycos Europe remains the largest of Lycos's overseas ventures, several other companies also entered into joint venture agreements including Lycos Canada, Lycos Korea and Lycos Asia.

Near the peak of the internet bubble on May 16, 2000, Lycos announced its intent to be acquired by Terra Networks, the internet arm of the Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica, for $12.5 billion ($18.0 billion today).[9] The acquisition price represented a return of nearly 3000 times the company's initial venture capital investment and about 20 times its initial public offering valuation.

Lycos, Inc.; currently according to Boston Better Business Bureau holds & has maintained an "F" rating due to large numbers of customer complaints and Lycos, Inc. failure to respond to customer complaints, as well as fraudulent use of the BBB's logo on Tripod's payment page. Lycos, Angelfire and Tripod are not accredited by the Better Business Bureau as they claimed and is substantiated by the Better Business Bureau on Lycos' company listing.

a lot of crappy deals and people trying to get rich quick during the dot-com bubble.

still can't believe how dumb Alta-Vista was to sell out like that. They had the best crawling capabilities in the mid to late 90's....and somebody bought them out / seemed to deliberately run em into the ground.

In the end, Google made the smartest acquisitions / business deals...which is why they prevailed . Google Analytics even came from Urchin Stats . yup...Google Analytics never was a ground-up project. Urchin Stats was the biggest stat analytic program before Analytics.. (for all u millennials out there.. ) Google bought them in 2005.

celandina · 03-19-2017, 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by mozadek

They also wanted to sell to Yahoo.

...Yahoo instead paid billions to Mark Cuban for Broadcast.com ......Broadcast.who?

NatalieK · 03-19-2017, 05:35 PM

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Originally Posted by rogueteens

Google only grew because it was in the right hands, if other people directed Yahoo we might never have heard of google.

this

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