Comments on: Google Buys Youtube for 1.65 billion

By: Kody

Kody — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 19:28:10 +0000

Hey guys,
I have an iMac G5 running tiger 10.4.7 and I an having a wierd problem. Whenever I go to a site that has an embedded youtube, flash or some kind of video, there is no sound. If it a quicktime file there is no problem. There is not sound no matter what broswer I use, firefox, camino, safari, or shiira. And keep in mind that about a week ago I was not having this issue.

Help Would be awesome
Thanks!

By: Marc-O

Marc-O — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:35:59 +0000

Also, for people thinking about the lost of some purity – seeing ads on YouTube – well, it was inevitable. YouTube had no ad-free future, economically, it made no sense. They build a lot of free stuff, and provided a strong server/bandwidth architecture to support all that streaming – and ask for nothing in return?

Google can turn YouTube into something economically viable, and while I do prefer the freebies, I don’t think that the google ad model is that harmful for the internet as a whole.

By: Marc-O

Marc-O — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:31:48 +0000

I don’t buy into the Google-conspiracy theories. Getting into video fits really well into their commercial scheme – selling publicity.

To conquer the video market – they need two things they didn’t quite achieved with google video – a lot of videos, and a user base. Things YouTube has. Now that google has put his hands on these data sources, cross-reference that with the data from the google search engine…

I guess, with enough data, they’ll start building a video ad sensor, built up with personal data. And if that works, what can they do? Become a middle-man between announcers and video broadcasters. Or even become a broacaster itself, sending the video you want, bundled with “intelligent” video-google-ads.

As much as Google has a lot of cool features and etc. what makes its economical power is ads – and provided they can move into another field of ad-providing, their future looks great.

By: Joey

Joey — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 06:52:22 +0000

Sooner or later they’ll purchase myspace, then yahoo, and then who knows what!

By: Kishan

Kishan — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 07:26:12 +0000

i totally agree with Joey..Google do have some great services but i also liked youtube and think its a really bad thing for the world

By: Joey

Joey — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:30:04 +0000

This is a bit scary. No matter what Google paid, they are getting a deal. Google is getting too powerful for the internet. Google has some great stuff and I use them, but what are the rest of the internet community going to do under the foot of a giant. I’d say it’s a potentially bad move for the world, good move for google. Google has enough good services. Youtube should have stayed in competition.

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synthetron — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 21:59:54 +0000

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