Let me take you back a few years, the year 1998 when two friends Larry Page and Sergey Brin were doing their Ph.D. at Stanford. This was the same historic year when these two friends gave birth to the biggest company in history, Google. A search engine that put the world at the tip of a human's fingers. Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at Stanford University. Larry Page came up with the idea of a website that would show different URLs on the same web page. But what if Page didn't even go to Stanford? What if Page and Brin had never met? Perhaps the way this world works today would have been different. Let's go ahead and see this world without Google.
Every day different miracles of technology were happening in Silicon Valley. Yahoo was one of the largest search engines in the world. But every time many enemies of Yahoo were being born like Hotsbot.com and excite.com. Yahoo was looking for a person who would take its search engine to a different level. Which gives it the form of a company in front of which no enemy can stand. His search ended at Stanford University. Larry Page's last year was over and he was about to leave after doing an MSc in computer science. Yahoo's good days had begun as soon as Larry Page joined the company. Larry Page made many changes at Yahoo. And there was also garbage on the website, they were removed and separated. Yahoo was now focusing on a search engine only. Page tied the Yahoo search engine to an algorithm that allowed Yahoo to display URLs and rank them. Yahoo's sting was ringing all over the world. The company invented a browser which was known as Yahoo chrome. Yahoo also bought a video hosting company named YouTube. There were now five tech giants in the world. Their names were Facebook, Amazon, Yahoo, Apple, and Netflix (FAYAN).
It is very easy to change the world, we just have to take the right decision at the right time. In fact, Google is a great company, which was created by the wrong decision of the great Yahoo. What if Yahoo had bought Google that day?
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