[geeks] Ok I am ready to kill this Fu**ing linux box

Rick Hamell hamellr at heorot.1nova.com
Fri May 24 16:18:29 CDT 2002


> 1) The Google history page[1], makes no mention of being bought by Yahoo!.
>    It does mention that the google founders were encouraged to make a company
>    out of their project.  Later it mentions that yahoo!, among others, is
>    now using google for their sites search services.

	And granted I could be wrong, it's been known to happen once or
twice in my life. :) As I understood it, the encouragement was in the form
of such things as server space, some initial $$$, admin help, etc. But
again, I no longer know anyone working for Yahoo so couldn't tell more
from an insider's view.

	Rick



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