the worldly winds

1998

Google, run by two grad students at stanford, asks yahoo,

"Would you like to buy our company for $1 million dollars?"

Yahoo declines.

2002

Yahoo offers to buy google for $3 billion dollars.

Google says, "Make it $5 billion."

Yahoo declines.

2008

Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $40 billion dollars

Yahoo declines.

2016

Yahoo is sold for $4.6 billion to verizon