In 1998 Google was failing and tried selling themselves to Yahoo. Google was no threat to Yahoo.
In 2002 Google started going somewhere and Yahoo tried buying them for 5 billion.
First Google tried selling themselves and were turned down. Then 4 years later yahoo saw that Google was going somewhere and tried buying them
What ideas could a 1 million company offer big mighty yahoo at that time? Google themselves didn't have any ideas.
Lol >.>