Google + You Tube = GoogleTube

[Red Baron]

So there's a big rumor that Google will buy You Tube for 1.6 Billion dollars

 

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentSe...ol=969048863851

[Guest Vitamin X]

Nooo I don't want to pay for content on youtube like I have to on google video. Fuck. It'll be more regulated too.

[Fökai]

I'd bet the house on more advertising before pay-for-content.

 

And Google should realize that any regulations outside of minor tweaking would be a bad thing. They don't want to scare away the userbase that YouTube holds. I believe the official number was 34 million unique people that used YouTube in the month of August. That's scary.

[Guest Vitamin X]

Even scarier is that youtube hasn't even been around for a year yet.

[Prophet of Mike Zagurski]

Youtube was losing lots of money. There is hardly any advertizing on that site.

[Dobbs 3K]

Yeah, that's one thing I've never understood. How does Youtube actually support itself? I never notice any ads or anything on it.

[Lightning Flik]

I think Youtube was probably invented with the idea that some big company like Google would buy them out for millions.

 

Or in this case, billions. Only reason why I could see them do this. ...how they managed to survive, is what I'm wondering.

[Ginger Snaps]

I'm convinced that Google will fuck this up somehow.

[randomguy]

YouTube lost money, they survived on venture capital. And yes, the business model was to get bought. Welcome to 1998 where "eyeballs" and "mindshare" are what matter most.