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Google in Talks to Buy YouTube

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the dogs-and-cats-living-together-mass-hysteria dept.

tessaiga writes "The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google is in talks to buy YouTube for about $1.6 billion. YouTube users watch more that 100 million videos daily, and the site's market share tops that of similar services offered by Google and other popular Web sites. This comes after a story earlier this morning that co-founder Sergey Brin is pushing for Google to cut back on the volume of products being offered, complaining that 'I was getting lost in the sheer volume of the products we were releasing'. Guess Google Video is one of the products making the approved shortlist."

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  1. But they couldn't solve our puzzles! by ClosedSource · · Score: 5, Funny

    What do you want to bet that the programmers at YouTube would have never made it through Google's interview process?

    1. Re:But they couldn't solve our puzzles! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      "all you need nowadays apparently is crap code and a userbase willing to kick people in the crotch."

      well then no WONDER Microsoft has done so well to date...

      To get Linux on the desktop we need users willing to be crotch-kickers.

    2. Re:But they couldn't solve our puzzles! by Jello+B. · · Score: 2, Funny

      To get Linux on the desktop we need users willing to be crotch-kickers.

      Nonsense, just set up a cron job.

  2. Google's a moron? by WilliamSChips · · Score: 4, Funny

    I didn't expect that!

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    1. Re:Google's a moron? by ergo98 · · Score: 2, Funny
      Methinks you misunderstand the meaning of 'grain of salt'.

      Somehow "a really tiny grain of salt" didn't sound right. I think the meaning is pretty clear and nonambiguous to anyone who doesn't literally parse a common saying. Basically I'm talking about readers who don't suffer from Severe Aspergers/Autism.
  3. In other news ... by tekkguy · · Score: 5, Funny

    In other news, Google has voted successfully to change the company's motto from "Don't be Evil" to "The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world!"

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  4. The new name. by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 5, Funny

    They plan to call it "GooTube."

    You don't want to know what the new logo looks like.

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  5. Re:I don't understand why they need to. by vertinox · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is YouTube really worth that much to them though?

    Maybe their "Don't be evil" clause also means keeping YouTube out of the hands of Newscorp.

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