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    Google in talks to 'aquire' YouTube

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by coriolis, Oct 6, 2006.

  1. coriolis

    coriolis Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Let's see, two guys in their 20s founded YouTube, divided $1.6B in half that equals 80 million a piece. I'd sell it if I were them.
     
    Andrew Baxter, Oct 6, 2006
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    Sweet, now they'll pretty much have a death grip on internet video as well as internet search. Why doesn't the SEC just go ahead and approve a Microsoft/Google/Intel/nVidia merger and get it over with? It'll remove all the annoying hassle of consumers having to choose and facilitate easy one-stop shopping for computer buyers, effectively removing yet another roadblock in our journey towards a truly utopian world! Hooray for monopolies!
     
    mach_zero, Oct 6, 2006
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    cuz Google is getting ready to release an OS and take on M$, of course.
     
    strikeback03, Oct 6, 2006
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    last i checked....1.6b in half is 800 mil....
     
    ProfessorChaos, Oct 6, 2006
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  6. LIVEFRMNYC

    LIVEFRMNYC Blah Blah Blah!!!

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    Google has an amazing track record.

    I use there search as default, use G-mail, and Love there software.
     
    LIVEFRMNYC, Oct 6, 2006
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    LOL I never knew YouTube traded on the NYSE. Are they a small company, or are they owned by a bigger company..?

    I thought YouTube was just a small website put togeather by a couple of guys!?

    I think the move in beneficial for both sides really. I don't think YouTube can manage all those thousands of Tera Bytes of videos.
     
    Lil Mayz, Oct 7, 2006
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  9. Tim

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    That is pretty cool for them. I hope google doesn't change it around too much. Hopefully they leave it pretty much the same.
    Tim
     
    Tim, Oct 9, 2006
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    In fact, YouTube is still run by a very small staff, less than ten people, if I remember correctly.

    Hehehe Google's on track to take over the world!
     
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    i find it amazing that everybody hates microsoft and loves google when google's main goal is to archive pretty much everything you do (surfing/searching habits, IM conversations, emails, video viewing habits, etc.) and use that information for $
     
    drumfu, Oct 9, 2006
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    Actually, no. I don't hate Microsoft, but I don't exactly love Google either, if you were directing that at me. :p

    Personally, I rarely experience all the complaints ppl say about Microsoft, like crashes, viruses, etc.
     
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    not directed at anybody in particular, just a generalization
     
    drumfu, Oct 9, 2006
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    69 employees to be exact, including the founders.

    EDIT: Correction, it's 67. That's what I get for speaking from (poor) memory. :p
     
    mach_zero, Oct 9, 2006
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    Thank you for clarifying that mach_zero :D
     
    Sam, Oct 9, 2006
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    BTW, they just completed the purchase. No more rumor to it.
     
    Pitabred, Oct 9, 2006
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    Oww you beat me to it.
     
    iOsiris, Oct 10, 2006
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    1.65 billion?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! For a company that makes NO money and has no business plan to make money? This scream dot boom all over again. Google are dumb for making this move I think. Now all those pissed copyright holders have someone to sue who can actually make a pay-out.
     
    cashmonee, Oct 10, 2006
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    Why Google should buy YouTube
     
    iOsiris, Oct 10, 2006
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  20. LIVEFRMNYC

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    Expect alot more AD's :(

    But I like Google, they always have some neat ideas :)
     
    LIVEFRMNYC, Oct 10, 2006
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    None of those were particularly convincing. I have seen several 'why this was good/smart' articles, none of them address the fact that it is impossible at this point to make money on a service like YouTube. Bandwidth costs are too high, which google does have solutions to, but also litigation costs a lot. And if they do succeed at keeping copy-protected content out, they will also succeed in killing their 1.65bn investment. I see no good in this for google. YouTube gets a lot of eyeballs, but I just don't see a way of monetizing that to the point where you will make more than you spend.
     
    cashmonee, Oct 10, 2006
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