Google in Talks to Buy YouTube

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday October 6, 2006 @06:25AM 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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mo3 0p by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-06 06:35 · Score: -1, Offtopic

so on, freeBSD went rUles to follow
Re:Google's a moron? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-06 07:09 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I'm cornfused. How would an unnamed source sparking an unsubstantiated rumor among a group with no credibilty give rise to a situation under which one would replace a metaphorical infinitesimal with a similarly metaphorical giant in importance?

Methinks you misunderstand the meaning of 'grain of salt'.

That, and your feet smell.