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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."
Let's see if we can slashdot baskin-robins!
free as in ice cream!
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Ice cream?!?! It's like 4 degrees outside!! How about some hot chocolate Baskin Robbins?!
You people have killed the web page! :(
Now I'll never find out how to get free ice cream.
Technology, the cause of and solution to all of life's problems.
Yahoo!'s 10th birthday is today. To celebrate, they're giving away... a scoop of ice cream, courtesy of Baskin Robbins.
Link: Baskin Robbins Yahoo! page (link will only work today)
I don't know about the rest of the country, but right now in Dallas it's 45 degrees.
Was this a promotion cooked up by Baskin Robbins to boost sales during a slow month? Does anyone else think this is weird?
Added by WebProNews Editor ...
Here's what the splash page (linked above) says:
Yahoo! Turns 10 Today!
"You may find our celebratory tune hard to resist since it's our birthday, but you get the present. Today only, March 2, 2005, as a registered Yahpp! user, you can get one scoop (2.5 oz..) of your favorite Basikin-Robbins' ice cream in a cup or a cone on us. Simply sign in, download your coupon, then head out to the party.
Availabale at over 3,423 select Baskin-Robbins locations throughout the world!"
It is not our abilities that show what we truly are... it is our choices.
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?
here is the link to the coupon: http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/yahoo_birthday /
I'm sure Yahoo must have SOME regrets after seeing how successful Google has become, and it's definitely taking traffic away from their own search engine. Anyone worth their salt on the internet has used Google at least once or uses it daily. Yahoo can't be happy about that. But they're moving in the right direction with free ice cream, can't beat that.
One scoop?
I read
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.
The ice cream is only free if the time it takes you to get to the store is worth nothing.
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the strongest word is still the word "free"
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/yahoo.htm l
According to wired magazine, Yahoo's profit in the last fiscal year was $542 million as compared to Google's $223 million. So it's more than double the profit for Yahoo than Google on roughly 20% more revenue. Not bad. Click on the thunbnail in the left column with the magnifying glasses to see the pretty graphs.
has anyone seen the yahoo page from '95!?! http://www.yahoo.com/_ylh=X3oDMTEwdnZjMjFhBF9TAzI3 MTYxNDkEdGVzdAMwBHRtcGwDaW5kZXgtY3Nz/s/231504
here's a link on profits http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2005/01 /17/daily19.html
That done, profits don't always matter when calculating the value of a company. What usually matters is how much their assets are worth.
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Dear Baskin Robbins,
Since I am too fat and lazy from eating your product to go get some down at the local store and my friend malus doesn't have one where he lives, could you drop a few free scoops into envelopes and mail them to us please? Thanks.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
Their current ice cream flavor list is here http://www.baskin-robbins.com/treats/flavor_list.s html.
Fine Print:
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Limit one coupon per customer, where supplies last, or for the first 300 coupons presented for redemption at each store.
FYI
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The coupon printed out in a full page of color. Having just bought an HP color cartridge, I'm wondering if it just isn't cheaper to buy the ice cream directly.
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.
While almost all the other .com's were .bombing, Yahoo very quietly amassed an enormous portfolio of once high-flying search engines [on pennies to the dollar, compared to their pre-crash values]:
So I wouldn't count them out just yet."Sorry, but they didn't tell us about it," the woman at the counter said when I presented my print-out. Everyone here, call ahead to see whether or not your BR is participating in this.
As for me, since Dunkin Donuts is the same company as BR, I'm taking my business to Krispy Kreme and Cold Stone Cremery instead.
"Anonymous Coward" is for whistleblowers, not unpopular opinions.
Their ownership started out as 2%, went down slightly due to some stock sales, but still over 1% I believe. This is stated in documents of both companies.
(.)(.)
People say I'm crazy, I got diamonds on the soles of my shoes...
Yeah, but they call it "milk" there.