Page was a smooth operator and, really, a killer. He looked at me dead in the eyes and added: “But don’t tell them.” Of course, that’s the first thing that I did. When I got to my car in Google’s parking lot, I called up Yahoo cofounder and Chief Yahoo Jerry Yang, with whom I had developed a spiky though friendly relationship that was not unlike two bickering siblings. I did not often warn companies, but I had seen this so many times before that I could not keep it to myself. “You need to get them off your platform,” I said regarding the dangerous licensing deal. “They look harmless, but
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