In the world of tech, Yahoo is ancient, and if you haven't noticed, many old things are cool again, like Game Boys and JNCOs, ...

The agreement announced Monday gives Yahoo an additional 2.7 million shares of Google stock in exchange for dropping a patent lawsuit involving a crucial piece of online advertising technology.

and because Google stumbled into one of the most amazing business models in history, Yahoo began its long, painful slide into irrelevancy and Google became one of the biggest companies in the world.