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10.10.2006

Google ♥s YouTube

Ah, there’s noth­ing quite like wak­ing up to news that two of your favorite web­sites are get­ting hitched. Google con­firmed that it is buy­ing YouTube for $1.65 Bil­lion in stock yesterday.

In other news, Google Video feels embarassed and alone. How could Google do this to her? She thought what Google and Google Video had together was special.

But seri­ously… why would Google want to buy YouTube? Sure, YouTube has a large audi­ence. Sure, YouTube has lots of con­tent (much of it break­ing copy­right laws). Sure, YouTube has.… wait, that’s all they have. Hmm… Is YouTube mak­ing money yet? No? But, admit­tedly, there is some poten­tial there…

But this deal seems odd to me. News cir­cu­lated a few months about a pos­si­ble Google-MySpace acqui­si­tion, but Google opted out because of the adver­tis­ing pos­si­bil­i­ties to be had on MySpace.com. I’m won­der­ing why they didn’t act the same way with YouTube?

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