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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."

16 of 367 comments (clear)

  1. New phrase for handouts! by qwertphobia · · Score: 5, Funny

    free as in ice cream!

    you heard it here first

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  2. ice cream by suougibma · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ice cream?!?! It's like 4 degrees outside!! How about some hot chocolate Baskin Robbins?!

  3. Nooooo by SlayerofGods · · Score: 5, Funny

    You people have killed the web page!
    Now I'll never find out how to get free ice cream. :(

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  4. News Site Slowing Down... by canfirman · · Score: 5, Informative
    so, here's the text:

    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!"

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  5. 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 deadmongrel · · Score: 4, Informative

      If i remember right yahoo used inktomi, google as their search engine. Until recently yahoo and google results were the same and if you look carefully at the bottom of the page you would see "powered by google".
      http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/article.php/ 2165081

  6. coupon link! by yincrash · · Score: 5, Informative

    here is the link to the coupon: http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/yahoo_birthday /

    1. Re:coupon link! by FooAtWFU · · Score: 4, Informative
      Here is the link to the coupon that doesn't need you to register or anything:
      http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/yahoo_birthday /coupon.swf?fName=Anonymous&lName=Coward&lang=us

      (Silly URL data encoding. Adjust URL parameters to suit your personal needs.)

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  7. Big Spenders by pmike_bauer · · Score: 4, Funny
    Joining the celebration is Baskin Robbins, which is serving up a free scoop of ice cream

    One scoop?

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  8. word by SweetAndSourJesus · · Score: 4, Funny

    The ice cream is only free if the time it takes you to get to the store is worth nothing.

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  9. 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

  10. Re:Baskin Robins! by nizo · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  11. Fine Print: First 300 only ... by un1xl0ser · · Score: 5, Informative

    Fine Print:

    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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  12. Damn, that sucks! by bezuwork's+friend · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  13. Yahoo == Altavista + AllTheWeb + Inktomi + ... by mosel-saar-ruwer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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]:

    Altavista
    AllTheWeb
    Inktomi
    Overture
    etc...
    So I wouldn't count them out just yet.

  14. Mine didn't take the coupon! by Lothar+0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    "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.

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