[khelloworld]

As far as I can recall reading, they did go to a bunch of places to sell their idea. Needless to say, none of the companies took their idea seriously.

[rmorrison]

There's a difference between going to a potential investor in an attempt to sell your ideas, and putting it on the open internet for anybody to gank.

[khelloworld]

Well, yeah. But, did they go to yahoo to raise money for the company?

[SingAlong]

oh yes I remember that story. It seems they approached Digital Equipment Corporation to sell it to them for $1M and, they refused so these guys went ahead with their own search engine.