> Yahoo made offers to buy Google
I think you have that backwards, Google kept asking Yahoo to buy them [1]
[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/remember-yahoo-turned-down-1-...
I think you have that backwards, Google kept asking Yahoo to buy them [1]
[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/remember-yahoo-turned-down-1-...
The early 1998 $1 million offer was prompted by Larry Page and Yahoo rejected him. However, the 2002 offer of $3 billion was from Yahoo and Google rejected them. In 2002, Google was already starting to see profits so they were under no pressure to sell.
"In 2002, Yahoo's CEO at the time, Terry Semel, engaged in negotiations to acquire Google, which lasted several months.
The outcome of the negotiation was Semel balking at Google's price tag of $5 billion."