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And they didn't really "do" youtube, they bought it. The core of the service has remained exactly the same since when it debuted.

• Herring 17y ago
  So what? Microsoft can make & has made acquisitions too. It's not Google's fault that MS is bad at that too.
  • benologist 17y ago
    My point is simply that you can't generalize and say MS sucks at web because they've had no success at search - they have multiple platforms that are or are close to market leaders, just not search. Can you imagine anyone writing about how Google should just admit they suck at web because they (also) only have a few actually-significant properties on the web? There's 3 MS and 5 Google properties on this page of the top 20 web properties according to Alexa - http://www.alexa.com/topsites http://www.alexa.com/topsites Neither sucks at web as a whole. But MS sucks at trying to dislodge Google from search and Google sucks at being anything but search (and YouTube, which was already massively successful when they bought it).
    • tybris 17y ago
      YouTube isn't exactly a success either. It's unlikely they'll ever have a positive return on their investment.
      • nfriedly 17y ago
        I disagree with you there, I expect youtube to be profitable at some point. I don't think Google spent that much money on mindshare alone.