Source: American Institute for Economic Research
by Kimberlee Josephson
“At the outset, Google had plans to be bought, not to be one of today’s biggest businesses receiving heat from the DOJ for its search engine prominence. In 1998, Google pitched itself to the premier search engine at that time, Yahoo, with a price tag of $1 million — but Yahoo declined. A year later, Google tried again and pitched itself to Excite, for $750,000. … Google’s growth is truly an impressive feat, and we have all benefited from its services — something we should remember while government agencies grill Google for its current market dominance in the search engine sector. The reason why Google has a dominant position when it comes to search is because it took steps to secure itself as the default. But the only way it could achieve default status was by deserving it (in addition to any dollars paid and contracts made).” (09/03/24)
https://www.aier.org/article/users-not-doj-decide-when-google-will-fall/