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- Yashar, on 10/12/2007, -9/+92Now they can deliver ultra ***** quality video together!*
*Unsynching audio included. - boolean, on 10/12/2007, -6/+50Seems like google accepted their defeat by youtube (against google video) ,so they are buying their competitor.
- timing, on 10/12/2007, -3/+38Yeah let's try to blog an article about a rumor google buying digg :-D. Then we submit it here on digg!
- deviateX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35MeneerR: Most of the non-search technology google is known for has been bought lock stock and barrel from out side the company. They most certainly do buy companies to grab their tech, engineers and to damage rivals!!
They bought Measure Map (rival blog search to its own blog search)
They bought Kaltix Corp (for its search tech)
They bought Google Analytics (for its tech,originally Urchin software corp.)
They bought MarketingVOX (an Analytics rival)
They bought Applied Semantics (rival search tech to damaging rival Ovature's business)
They bought - Writely (.net technology to fight ms word)
They bought Upstartle LLC (a rival to Writely)
They bought Google Earth (originally Keyhole corp., originally an MS partner)
They bought Picassa Earth (originally Picassa Inc) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+40Google should buy digg.
- chronicRick, on 10/12/2007, -3/+33@TheWriteGuy
YouTube has a terrible community. Comments are typically spam or tasteless insults with a heavy dash of gratuitous profanity. Sounds kinda like digg.. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+32But what's the financial motivation behind buying YouTube?
- rinkjustice, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25Great story. I hope this is true. YouTube is too good to be bought up then whittled away by lawsuits. Google will be able to afford these legal costs and licencing fees no prob.
- Jerky1312, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21I like the last line...
This story is "40% at least partially true." What in the world does that mean? That this rumor was pulled out the ass to get hits? - bluemist, on 10/12/2007, -5/+23?
Profit! - marksy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17so will that make it Gootube?
- extreme101, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17If this is in fact the real deal, which i can;t be too sure..... would prefer google to buy then newscorp or yahoo.
I just hope google do something good with it, take it somewhere in the future, possibly dump google video, improve upon youtube and make it totally awsome.
But we all know if any company can turn youtube into a profitable site, its google... expect to loads of adsense.... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+24i don't really think that google would start buying competition, it's absurd and google doesen't play like that.
- timing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Here is the Google buys Digg post: http://digg.com/tech_deals/Google_may_be_buying_Digg_com
- wurzelgummage, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15The digg/dugg system can't be working if this kind of ***** makes the front page.
- johnnyOnline, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15i don't think so! i bought it for my nephew! i got the last youtubes at the markets.
- gr8one, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12I'm going to assume you meant just Picasa, not Picasa Earth, darned copy and paste bugs....
- MeneerR, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15When Google chooses to buy another company, they buy it because they are not in that field yet.
Google does not buy a company to get their engineers. And it is almost never about acquiring technology. They don't need YouTube technology, and they don't need their engineers. They would want their database of videos and domain name.
I study informatics. I'm pretty sure, from all the IT companies out there, has the best pick. If any nerd is ever so lucky to get to choose between Google, MS or whatever. They'll choose Google. Nerds love nerd-lovers. As simple as that. - TheWriteGuy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10The strength of YouTube is the social aspect of its user community, where people share videos and produce their own (mostly vanity) videos to share. While Google Video itself is technically just as good, if not better than YouTube, Google's effort hasn't quite captured the social-ness of YouTube.
Google Video has one thing going for it: Deals with TV networks and other content holders of television programming and movies. YouTube needs similar type of deals, and they've secured some deals with the major record labels to provide music videos.
It looks like this could be a situation where Google owns and runs separately two video hosting services, but each has a slightly different, but significant enough for marketing purposes, angle. - kigabit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em.
- ricree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7For 1.6 billion, it doesn't really matter that they "beat" them. Youtube is having enough trouble making money as it is, trying to make back 1.6 billion just doesn't seem likely.
- iPodius, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7This really doesn't make much sense. Why would Google buy YouTube when they have Google Video? They certainly don't need YouTube's software... $1.6bn for a domain address? Seems pretty pricey to me.
- humanaut, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6heh
um.. if I was you I'd go and register gootube.com ASAP. - boolean, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6$1.6billion is for the 20million visitors per month + 100million video views per day + 65000 new videos everyday etc...
- dinkola, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8You forgot one thing ... Google is related to Apple (via board membership). Google's main business is generating money from content/ads while letting other people use the content. If YouTube is acquired by Google, this could be great news for Apple. There is an extra possibility that Google video and YouTube could be presented via iTV.
- bart5986, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4If this does happen, most likely they will go through it all and get rid a lot of videos.
- GrimReeper, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Interesting if true but I dont digg rumors.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Why don't they just buy Youtube when it falls into the ground? (In mid-2007)
- GSocling, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@Lyph4
Financial motivation is traffic, I believe, and I don't think Google worries about bandwidth, so it probably looks very appealing to them. - chrisrad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Skype went for more...
$2.2b I believe - bertram, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2why the hell is this under "tech deals"?
- MatTipton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wow, where do people come up with these rumors? Seriously, this ***** is so far fetched... who would actually belive this? The weird thing is a lot of people want to believe far fetched rumors and stupid ***** like this. Amazingly, it's the simple/down to earth things that those same people have a hard time believing.
- MrViklund, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Haha I don't think sooo.... YouTube isn't going any where and they are just burning money. Google has it's own Video-service and buying YouTube is just plain stupid. No DiGG. END of discussion.
- AmishRefugee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i don't think that's very far out on a limb at all, it seems pretty absurd to me that it would be true in the first place
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I`m downloading all the music videos I can before they get "Napstered".They are a perfect size for my Pocket PC and/or Zune. Thank you video downloader ! SueTube is the Napster of video...they will be sued into oblivion. Steal it while you can ! Reminds me of all those sleepless nights in 2000 getting all my faves off Napster.
- marnaq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2 Domain Name: GOOTUBE.COM
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Last Updated on: 20-Jun-06 - Hillbilly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"But what's the financial motivation behind buying YouTube?"
Google is intuitive enough to turn it into money or traffic, which is money for Google. It has been in the news a lot lately for copyright issues. So, buying it (potentially) brings Google a lot of traffic. Traffic = money. 1 Billion for a good advertisement op and getting rid of competition. - Wolfman~K, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1maybe google can afford them because they have all the "dark" fiber.
- fallenone05, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That would be good for google's stock
- ElectricGrandpa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21.9 billion *euros* ... That's almost $4 billion
- ReadMeTXT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Everyone's making monies but me :(
- ziki, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Maybe someone from google told michael arrington to post that blog so that google can see the feedback from people. Considering digg has a large user base with quick responses, it can be used as a very informative piece of feedback.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10.02 cents .... American
- drpeppper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Last i heard youtube was losing millions.
Buying youtube would be like buying a machine that specifically burns money. - humblepatience, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The last thing we need is more google...I'm a huge fan of google but I don't think they need to be in this market
- cagedog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There's just no way in hell Google would buy YouTube. $1.6 billion for a company that's losing money hand over fist? As Mark Cubin says, as soon as the copyright holders of YouTube content see deep pockets they'll sue the ***** out of them. You people talking about how Google needs the traffic are forgetting that the reason YouTube has traffic is that they're breaking the law. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love YouTube, but it's not a good business.
- Bronstone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I dunno. If Google buys YouTube, it's kinda gonna be like when you're throwing a party and the parents are coming home. The mischievious fun is done and it's time to clean up.
- raynevandunem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1While I concur that it isn't in Google's known style to buyout a huge competitor, I'd like to think about the possibility of buying a lesser-known non-Google video hosting service.
If Google's main drive is to index all the web's info and make it available to anyone, then maybe Google Video wasn't a sure fit into that vision from the getgo?
So, instead of setting up a video host, they should've set up a search service that indexes all the flash-based video sites (YouTube, Metacafe, etc.) for easy searching. Just throw in some AdSense, and they're done.
Honestly, they could've kept the Video-host service on the backburner alongside Orkut for all that most folks, including myself, care. At least Google Reader allows for subscription to YouTube's tag and user feeds, although I'm not sure that anything's gonna come out of that. - blattnew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I hope they dont change youtube, o the player, cuz the youtube system is the most advanced. well, i trust google, i just hope they dont scew this one up
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