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Lessons Learned from Yahoo's Failure in the Search Engine Market
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38:25 - 41:33 (03:08)

The transcript discusses how Yahoo failed to keep up with the search engine competition by not creating a Google-style search engine and instead focusing on web directories, resulting in significant financial losses.

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Learn about the early days of web directories and search engines, including Vamas, and their role in creating web rings for people to easily link and share websites.
38:25 - 39:52 (01:27)
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Web Rings
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Learn about the early days of web directories and search engines, including Vamas, and their role in creating web rings for people to easily link and share websites.

Chapter
Lessons Learned from Yahoo's Failure in the Search Engine Market
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The Tim Ferriss Show
The speaker describes how their web portal experienced success during the dot com era, but faced a contract dispute and ultimately lost funding.
39:52 - 41:33 (01:41)
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Web Portals