Almost eight years ago, Yahoo decided to lend a little start-up a helping hand, featuring its search technology on the Yahoo home page and giving it money at a critical juncture. The start-up was Google... Read more about this here. Really interesting... http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_8592114 .
Yahoo helped google to when they were starting up? I had no idea, maybe google should return the favor.
It makes commercial sense, it is not really a case of helping or charity, both sides wins. Just that Google makes better use of its technology and leap frog the rest of the gang.
Another interesting fact (at least for me) is: I somehow thought that Google didn't have any serious hard-times. Well, yet another lesson that even the most successful businesses (like Google) do have difficulties in their beginning