Yahoo Passed on Opportunity to Buy Google

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Yahoo Passed On Opportunity To Buy Google?

By: Andy Beal
2006-05-12

The New York Post digs deeper into the interview with Yahoo's Terry Semel and reveals how the CEO had an opportunity to buy Google.

Link: NY Post

Semel...met with Google's two young founders for dinner and talk turned to a possible deal between the two Internet companies.

The pair said their company, which was just getting off the ground, was worth $1 billion - but added they didn't want to sell.

Semel checked in with them a week or so later. They told him Google still wasn't for sale - and that the price had jumped to $3 billion.

"And I said, well you still have the same business you had two weeks ago, right? Which adds up to nothing," Semel said. "So obviously we couldn't and didn't buy the company."

That and the fact that they said it wasn't for sale. ;-)

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Andy Beal is an internet marketing consultant and considered one of the world's most respected and interactive search engine marketing experts. Andy has worked with many Fortune 1000 companies such as Motorola, CitiFinancial, Lowes, Alaska Air, DeWALT, NBC and Experian.

You can read his internet marketing blog at Marketing Pilgrim and reach him at [email protected].


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