Google buys YouTube for $1.65 billion

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Posted by simplcake on Oct-09-2006 23:10:

Google buys YouTube for $1.65 billion

Link

Posted by pvdAngel on Oct-09-2006 23:12:

Greedy bastards. They already have Google Video.

Posted by EXTREMUM on Oct-09-2006 23:12:

Google > *

...that is all.

Posted by Googooly on Oct-09-2006 23:13:

EEK...whats next? Mircosoft??

Posted by jdat on Oct-09-2006 23:14:

Wow that is just ridiculase!

I don't know if it's going to happen.. at least not anytime soon I wouldn't think but I cannot wait for the day that google will fall on it's ass.

Posted by Frenchie on Oct-09-2006 23:14:

Oh well.

Posted by EXTREMUM on Oct-09-2006 23:14:

quote:
Originally posted by jdat
Wow that is just ridiculase!

I don't know if it's going to happen.. at least not anytime soon I wouldn't think but I cannot wait for the day that google will fall on it's ass.

This is Google we're talking about, not Martha Stewart.

Posted by emc^2 on Oct-09-2006 23:15:

Youtube inventor nerds make out like bandits, take the dough and run.

good for them (youtube nerds), sucks for us - the poor schlobs who have to work for living.

oh yea, I think it's safe to say that lots of copyright content (like music videos) will very shortly be squashed after transition to google.

Posted by Rinster on Oct-09-2006 23:15:

quote:
Originally posted by Googooly
EEK...whats next? Mircosoft??

they are gonna want to buy goatse.cx

Posted by EXTREMUM on Oct-09-2006 23:15:

quote:
Originally posted by emc^2
oh yea, I think it's safe to say that lots of copyright content (like music videos) will very shortly be squashed after transition to google.

Yup.

Posted by EXTREMUM on Oct-09-2006 23:16:

quote:
Originally posted by Googooly
EEK...whats next? Mircosoft??

AOL and eBay/Paypal...then Microsoft.

Posted by jdat on Oct-09-2006 23:17:

quote:
Originally posted by EXTREMUM
This is Google we're talking about, not Martha Stewart.

Hello .... silicon valley bust in the late 90s?

A lot of people predict that it could happen again soon but I must say that google while they have had great plans to guarantee their continued popularity the advertisement program they use is at great risk.

Posted by EXTREMUM on Oct-09-2006 23:19:

quote:
Originally posted by jdat
Hello .... silicon valley bust in the late 90s?

A lot of people predict that it could happen again soon but I must say that google while they have had great plans to guarantee their continued popularity the advertisement program they use is at great risk.

Hello, welcome to last decade?

However, I'll keep an open mind about your theory, even though I don't see it happening to Google.

Posted by R!CH on Oct-09-2006 23:21:

google overpaid

Posted by emc^2 on Oct-09-2006 23:22:

Well, here, while it's still available (and quite appropriate)

Posted by EXTREMUM on Oct-09-2006 23:22:

quote:
Originally posted by lex400sc
google overpaid

This, I find very believable. I don't see how YouTube can be worth so much.

Posted by Frenchie on Oct-09-2006 23:23:

Posted by pvdAngel on Oct-09-2006 23:24:

quote:
Originally posted by emc^2
Well, here, while it's still available (and quite appropriate)

Yay!!

Posted by EXTREMUM on Oct-09-2006 23:26:

quote:
Originally posted by emc^2
Well, here, while it's still available (and quite appropriate)

Surge protector, ftw!

Posted by jdat on Oct-09-2006 23:29:

quote:
Originally posted by EXTREMUM
Hello, welcome to last decade?

However, I'll keep an open mind about your theory, even though I don't see it happening to Google.

Nothing is preventing history from repeating itself!

Well what I am saying is that this net based "economy" where no tangible goods are being produced could very well go bust very shortly.

But the major web players are playing it safe this time around so the come down should be less hard ... well maybe not as the money involved is much larger now than back in the 90s.

Read an interesting article here on the subject of the potential web bust and how new kids on the block are making fortunes:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazin...htm?chan=search

Download the podcast for the article if you can't be bothered reading

Posted by chris harrington on Oct-09-2006 23:37:

quote:
Originally posted by emc^2

oh yea, I think it's safe to say that lots of copyright content (like music videos) will very shortly be squashed after transition to google.

dang it. Thats what i used youtube for

Posted by Frenchie on Oct-09-2006 23:38:

Although, I don't really care who owns it and what they show/don't show...as long as I don't have to pay to watch it, upload stuff.

Posted by chris harrington on Oct-09-2006 23:45:

quote:
Originally posted by Frenchie
Although, I don't really care who owns it and what they show/don't show...as long as I don't have to pay to watch it, upload stuff.

carp this never occured to me if they do i think i will have to send some angry emails

Posted by emc^2 on Oct-10-2006 00:19:

quote:
Originally posted by chris harrington
carp this never occured to me if they do i think i will have to send some angry emails

In the words of Scott Adams: "Did you know that if you put a little hat on a snowball it can last a long time in hell?"

Posted by chris harrington on Oct-10-2006 00:26:

quote:
Originally posted by emc^2
In the words of Scott Adams: "Did you know that if you put a little hat on a snowball it can last a long time in hell?"

I dont get it

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