In the 90s, Yahoo emerged as the symbol of the internet era, becoming an internet superstar that introduced the world to the online age. Yahoo was the first major internet company to understand what people were searching for on the web. After going public in 1996, its stock soared.

Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Messenger, Yahoo Finance, and Yahoo News were all top services. By 2000, the company’s value surpassed $125 billion, making Yahoo the first stop for anyone coming online.

In 1998, Google’s founders were ready to sell their company to Yahoo for just $1 million, but Yahoo declined, believing they did not need a search engine. This decision would shape the future. Google grew to become the world’s most powerful tech company, and Yahoo’s decline began. Rather than developing its own search techno

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