LifeStyle Magazine

 In 1998, Yahoo made the most expensive mistake in corporate history. Two kids begged them to buy their tiny website for $1m.  But Yahoo’s CEO called it "a waste of time". 11 years later, those kids wiped Yahoo off the internet. Here’s the shocking story of Yahoo's downfall.  1994, Yahoo started as a college project I A website built to help people find information online. By 1996, it became the largest online platform at a $33.8M valuation. They had the users, the hype, and the cash. But cracks were forming… Then in 1998, two Stanford students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, built a revolutionary search engine. Their algorithm made Yahoo’s search look ancient. Unlike Yahoo’s directory-style listings, where human editors manually organized websites,  These guys built something different. Their secret sauce? PageRank. Instead of just matching keywords, their algorithm ranked websites based on how many other sites linked to them, like academic citations.  The more li...