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In the early 2000s, Larry Page and Sergey Brin sought investment for Google, approaching Yahoo!, which offered a lowball $1 million for acquisition. Page and Brin rejected the offer. By 2004, Google went public and dominated search, while Yahoo! stru

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Yahoo realized its mistake and later approached Google with a $3 billion offer. However, Google asked for $5 billion, leading Yahoo to make the same mistake again

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