These kids begged yahoo to buy their website in 1998 Ever wondered how Google went from a Stanford project to the world’s top search engine? Back in 1999, Larry Page and Sergey Brin offered Google’s revolutionary PageRank technology to Yahoo for just $1 million—but Yahoo rejected the deal! Later, Excite also turned down Google for $750,000, a decision that’s now considered one of the biggest mistakes in tech history. Fast forward to 2002, Yahoo tried to buy Google for $1 billion, but Page and Br