Yahoo Turns 10; Free Ice Cream for America

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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Yahoo & Google

[LittleGuernica]

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?

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[ptbarnett]

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.

see the original front page

[dhbiker]

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