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Google Buys YouTube For $1.65bn

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ally77 said on October 10, 2006 09:47:

Google is buying video-sharing website YouTube for $1.65bn (£883m) in shares after a weekend of speculation that a deal was in the offing.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6034577.stm

That is a lot of money....

pwbbounce (moderator) said on October 10, 2006 10:03:

That’s pocket money to me......

yeah, right!!!

Queen_Marie said on October 10, 2006 11:32:

I only heard of YouTube a few weeks ago. Never visited.
Sounds like a good investment for Google though.

pwbbounce (moderator) said on October 10, 2006 11:40:

YouTube is a pretty amazing site really. There’s tons and ton’s of Roxette stuff, and you can even see footage of my budgies!! lol

coyboyusa said on October 10, 2006 12:51:

you tube is gonna go to crap :(

ally77 said on October 10, 2006 12:58:

Awww Paul are you gonna share a link with us!

Majdy said on October 10, 2006 20:15:

That IS lots of money.

LittleSpooky said on October 10, 2006 21:01:

Yeah... YouTube’s pretty much gonna suck from now on.

rox-kuryliw said on October 10, 2006 21:13:

google google google, and u know i have never used it lol i dog pile the lot lol

kachina008 said on October 10, 2006 21:13:

What’s wrong with google?

ally77 said on October 11, 2006 08:36:

Got to admit I don’t use it neither.... always been a Yahoo person!

rox-kuryliw said on October 11, 2006 09:37:

whats right with google, i personally think they have to much interenet power, and i personally like to try different ways/ things and not go the most popular cos its the most powerful. thats just me lol.

pwbbounce (moderator) said on October 11, 2006 16:20:

@ Ally - Just for you!! lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frohaADkr1s - The original

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlsRVAzEUDY - The sequel!

They don’t really do much!

kachina008 said on October 11, 2006 16:22:

so wait, you don’t like something just ’coz it’s popular?

I personally really like google, it’s a powerful search engine, just the fact that you have oodles of space on gmail is wonderful (besides the fact that you start getting SPAM in other free email providers within weeks of a new account)...Google is just flexible and easy to use. I’ve noticed lately that you can even do searches for scientific articles on google, which will probably give Pubmed a run for its money in the future (so far, Pubmed is still cleverer for science/med stuff).

So yeah, anyway, me likes google :)

RobS said on October 12, 2006 12:02:

I’ve been using Google for ages, the main reason i like it is that it’s not full of crap on the page. Just a simple search box. Although dogpile isn’t too bad either. But if find google easier to type ;-)

I’m wondering whether Google will keep YouTube as it is or whether they’ll integrate it into GoogleVideo?

rox-kuryliw said on October 12, 2006 16:29:

yep i dont use something kachina008 just becouse it is popluar. dog pile FYI searches 5 search engines , so not as ’popular’ as google but far better in my eyes.