15 Largest Internet Acquisitions Ever

10. Yahoo buys Overture Services Inc.
Sale Price: $1.63 Billion
Year: 2003

GoTo.com was an Idealab spin off and was the first company to successfully provide a pay-for-placement search service. On October 8, 2001, GoTo.com, Inc. renamed itself Overture Services, Inc.

In 2003, Overture was acquired by its biggest customer, Yahoo!, for $1.63 billion. The old brand name of Overture has now been phased out as Yahoo! re-brands many of its products under the Yahoo! name. The exception to this is in Japan and Korea where the local businesses continue to use the Overture brand.

9. Google buys YouTube
Sale Price: $1.65 Billion
Year: 2006

YouTube, the most popular and the largest video-sharing website on which users can upload, view and share videos was created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005. The company is based in San Bruno, California, created.

In the year 2006, Google acquired YouTube at a sale price of $ 1.65 billion. Detractors questioned whether YouTube, already facing legal battles from both movie and music studios, was worth the cash.

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