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19 Jun 2019 Conversations with Tyler Hal Varian on Taking the Academic Approach to Business
“I’ve heard the story about Yahoo, but the most definitive story I’ve seen, I think, was Excite.”
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- Hal Varian
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- 19 Jun 2019
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…It’s true that at some point, Brin and Page offered to sell the page rank algorithm to Yahoo for a million dollars? I think it was Excite. I’ve heard the story about Yahoo, but the most definitive story I’ve seen, I think, was Excite. And the claim in this source was that they wanted to sell their algorithm. They wanted to get back to graduate school and have the life of a graduate student plus $1 million. But the trouble is, they couldn’t really reach an agreement with Excite. Not so much on the price, but on what kind of technology would be used in the search engine. And who showed them the algorithm was actually so valuable?…
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