Google Buys Youtube

Demios · Post by **Demios** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 8:45 am

http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/09/technol ... tm?cnn=yes

SquareHead · Post by **SquareHead** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 9:50 am

So I have read. The question is, is this good or bad?

Oskar_Hanberg · Post by **Oskar_Hanberg** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 11:32 am

I'd say its bad.. Youtube has become a strong brand. But rumor has it they will change the name because its "silly".

darkbenny · Post by **darkbenny** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 3:12 pm

That would be quite foolish.

Where did you hear this rumour?

Oskar_Hanberg · Post by **Oskar_Hanberg** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 3:54 pm

According to Swedish IDG It was said by David Hallerman at pcworld. But it seems they didn't reffered to any link, and I can't find anything on Google. So its probably bullshit. Here is the link to the Swedish site anyhow.

http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.78572

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 5:25 pm

SquareHead wrote:So I have read. The question is, is this good or bad?

It depends. If you think of storing videos online, it was YouTube all the way.

It was kinda logical for Google to acquire them. Google videos weren't that impressive.

The problem with YouTube, in terms of funding all of this were the lack of ads when it debut.. changing that while deploying such a service could have turned off users... so with the acquistion by Google.. such a more heavily ad financed system could be deployed.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 10:35 pm

Deathlike2 wrote:It was kinda logical for Google to acquire them. Google videos weren't that impressive.

Well, Saturn's Super Metroid videos and other speedruns looked better at Google, IMO.

But YouTube has the larger userbase.

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 2:04 am

creaothceann wrote:
Deathlike2 wrote:It was kinda logical for Google to acquire them. Google videos weren't that impressive.
Well, Saturn's Super Metroid videos and other speedruns looked better at Google, IMO.

You can also download the actual video files using Google Video.

kieran_ · Post by **kieran_** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 10:17 am

snkcube wrote:
creaothceann wrote:
Deathlike2 wrote:It was kinda logical for Google to acquire them. Google videos weren't that impressive.
Well, Saturn's Super Metroid videos and other speedruns looked better at Google, IMO.
You can also download the actual video files using Google Video.

Keepvid.com or just looting your cache will let you keep youtube videos. I know its not as simple as google video, but what can you do.

About advertising, in the frew years that I have been online, I have learned to tune out pretty much all web advertisements. I couldn't give a shit if there is some flashing ad. I'll look at it for a fraction of a second and move on.

kode54 · Post by **kode54** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:14 pm

Yes, but those are still in the FLV format, which you need some Flash-based player to use. Google Video provides MP4 downloads, which may or may not be more convenient.

kieran_ · Post by **kieran_** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:13 pm

kode54 wrote:Yes, but those are still in the FLV format, which you need some Flash-based player to use. Google Video provides MP4 downloads, which may or may not be more convenient.

VLC plays back flv files.

Que · Post by **Que** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:17 pm

yay, youtube is annoying with their registration shit anyways

jsnake · Post by **jsnake** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 8:06 pm

Que wrote:yay, youtube is annoying with their registration shit anyways

Stop being a retard. That's like saying the majority of the Internet is annoying.

Que · Post by **Que** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 11:11 pm

jsnake wrote:
Que wrote:yay, youtube is annoying with their registration shit anyways
Stop being a retard. That's like saying the majority of the Internet is annoying.

it is....including you.

jsnake · Post by **jsnake** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 12:00 am

Que wrote:
jsnake wrote:
Que wrote:yay, youtube is annoying with their registration shit anyways
Stop being a retard. That's like saying the majority of the Internet is annoying.

it is....including you.

Well, then GTFO my Internets.

Que · Post by **Que** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 12:03 am

jsnake wrote:
Que wrote:
jsnake wrote:
Que wrote:yay, youtube is annoying with their registration shit anyways
Stop being a retard. That's like saying the majority of the Internet is annoying.

it is....including you.
Well, then GTFO my Internets.

What? You make the sense of a penut floating inside a glass of milk.

Demios · Post by **Demios** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 9:04 pm

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061020-8038.html

neoblaze · Post by **neoblaze** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 4:20 am

ps. the majority of the internet is annoying