Early Yahoo Postmortem, And Google CEO Eric Schmidt On The Prospect Of MicroHoo
If the Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo does happen the “postmortems” on Yahoo will come fast and furious. Perhaps the first of these is from the Mercury News, which recounts the history of Google and Yahoo’s early relationship and how the latter essentially “made” Google, which went on to become its most formidable competitor. The piece indirectly argues that Yahoo’s failure to recognize Google as a threat — despite Yahoo CEO Terry Semel’s unsuccessful early attempt to buy it — is partly responsible for the company’s predicament today.
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