Back in the late 90s, web portals like Excite were the beating heart of the web. Then along came this young upstart Google with all their newfangled ideas and clever engineers. But before the search giant had become a giant, Larry and Sergey were looking to sell to the highest bidder. In 1999, Excite could have had Google for under $1 million, and they passed.

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