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Yahoo Turns 10; Free Ice Cream for America

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the strange-promotions dept.

indiejade writes "It was 10 years ago today that Yahoo was born in a trailer outside Stanford University. Joining the celebration is Baskin Robbins, which is serving up a free scoop of ice cream in honor of the day Yahoo began climbing the ranks from its humble beginning. Founders Jerry Yang and David Filo joined CEO Terry Semel to kick off the stock market opening bell this morning. The Birthday Boys claim that they are happy with the steady growth of their company, and expressed no regrets for their "once upon a time" decision to fund Google. "Competition is good," they said prior to the opening bell this morning."

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  1. Yahoo & Google... by Sloppyjoes7 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does anyone else remember when you went to Yahoo, and it said "Powered by Google?"

    Boy, I loved Yahoo back then. I suppose I stopped using Yahoo as my search engine when that message went away. If Yahoo had used its internet portal identity with Google's search capabilities, they would've been an unstoppable Juggernaut.

    But I suppose Google will do that by itself now.

  2. Yahoo & Google by LittleGuernica · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When I searched google to find info on Yahoo's funding of google,(I typed in "google yahoo") the first result I got was google.yahoo.com, wich is odd. The site doens't work by the way.. Anybody care to explain how that can be?

    1. Re:Yahoo & Google by Evangelion · · Score: 2, Interesting


      Google used to provide 'fallback' search results to Yahoo when Yahoo couldn't find things in it's directory.

  3. slightly off topic but.... by dhbiker · · Score: 2, Interesting

    has yahoo ever posted a profit in its 10 years? From RTFA it says yahoo is worth $44 billion and last year sales were $3.6 billion, it makes no mention of any profit though which leads me to the conclusion that either

    a) the profits really aren't that spectatular
    b) they don't make any profit

  4. in Norway... by tuxette · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...it could be -10 C or colder outside, and you'll still see people outside, eating ice cream. It's just soooo good!

    --
    People say I'm crazy, I got diamonds on the soles of my shoes...
  5. Assertion not supported by article by ptbarnett · · Score: 3, Interesting
    The Birthday Boys claim that they are happy with the steady growth of their company, and expressed no regrets for their "once upon a time" decision to fund Google. "Competition is good," they said prior to the opening bell this morning."

    I emailed the on-duty editor about this, but apparently it didn't get there in time.

    The article actually says:

    "My guess is that they will do a good job," Semel said of Microsoft's increasing emphasis on search engine technology. "I welcome that. It's good to have good competition."

    Perhaps another source indicates that Yang and Filo don't regret funding Google. But, it isn't cited here.

  6. see the original front page by dhbiker · · Score: 5, Interesting

    has anyone seen the yahoo page from '95!?! http://www.yahoo.com/_ylh=X3oDMTEwdnZjMjFhBF9TAzI3 MTYxNDkEdGVzdAMwBHRtcGwDaW5kZXgtY3Nz/s/231504

  7. Re:News Site Slowing Down... by entrager · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually when I worked at a grocery store we were told that ice creams sells best during the winter months. I don't know how true that is, but having worked there and paying semi-close attention to that oddity, I think I can say it certainly seemed that way. Perhaps it was just a trick of the mind though.

  8. Censorship: Yahoo messenger filters the link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    try sending this in yahoo messenger.

    http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/yahoo_birthd ay /

    your receipient won't get it