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Google and Yahoo! are companies that are very similar, but are headed in different directions, and 2013 was a year that proved it. While we continue to associate both companies as our go-to places for search results (sorry Bing users), Yahoo! made bold moves last year that showed how serious they are about capturing a young Internet audience that's interested in news and content, presented in the Yahoo! style. Google, on the other hand, further established itself as a hardware maker, overseeing the release of the Moto X, hyping up Google Glass, and teasing self-driving cars. Years from now, or even sooner, these companies will continue to look different from each other—and will continually evolve from today—further leaving behind what first made them famous. Here we present, Yahoo vs. Google By the Numbers.
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Yahoo! had a four year head start on Google.
Google founded: September 4, 1998
Yahoo! founded: January 1994 as "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web."
Yahoo! went public first.
Google: August 19, 2004
Yahoo: April 12, 1996
But Google had the higher IPO.
Google's IPO made $1.67 billion after they lowered their price to $85 a share. Yahoo! owned 8.4 million shares of Google at the time.
Yahoo! went public years earlier, but "only" made $33.8 million after selling 2.6 million shares at $13 each.
Number of CEOs
Since its founding, Yahoo! has gone through four CEOs: co-founder Jerry Yang, Carol Bartz, Scott Thompson, and now Marissa Mayer.
Google has had only two CEOs, current chairman Eric Schmidt, and current CEO and co-founder Larry Page.
Social Media
Twitter:
@Google has 7.8 million followers
@Yahoo has 1.1 million
Facebook:
Google has 15 million likes
Yahoo! has 11 million likes
Google has continually beaten Yahoo! in searches for years, but Yahoo! is fighting back.
In July 2013, Yahoo! pulled 196.6 million desktop visitors to Google's 192.3 million, beating Google in vistors for the first time in two years.
How much current CEOs make.
Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer took home $6 million last year for her first 12 months on the job.
Google CEO Larry Page took home a salary of $1. (His primary compensation comes from returns on Google investments.)
NASDAQ
As of yesterday, Google's shares on NASDAQ were going for 1,141.23, while Yahoo's went for 41.02.
How many times Marissa Mayer has worn Google Glass compared to Sergey Brin.
Marissa Mayer: (most likely) 0
Sergey Brin: 10,000,000,000,000..., or, 10(10100), or, simply, a googolplex amount of times.*
*Just a lot of times.
How many love triangles Yahoo CEOs have been involved in versus Google. (That we know of.)
Back in August, high ranking Google employee Hugo Barra left the company after his former girlfriend, who is employed with Google, started having an affair with the still married (but then newly seperated) Google co-founder, Sergey Brin.
So far, Yahoo! has been silent on any love spats in their department.
(Told you Sergey wears Glass a lot.)
Biggest purchases in 2013.
Yahoo purchased Tumblr, the popular micro-blogging platform, for $1.1 billion in May 2013.
Google bought Waze, a GPS navigation company for $966,000,000, and integrated it with Google Maps. Google's last purchase of 2013 was of the robotics group Boston Dynamics, for an undisclosed amount. (Check out the video above of the future Google army.)
