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> Google was solely responsible for YouTube's ultimate success and they deserve the credit accordingly. If they were capable of making a success of video witho
by barry-cotter 8y ago
> Google was solely responsible for YouTube's ultimate success and they deserve the credit accordingly.
If they were capable of making a success of video without buying YouTube why did they buy it in the first place. Video.google.com was developer internally, YouTube thrashed it, Google gave up and bought YouTube.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Video https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Video
- sievebrain 8y agoThey needed each other. YouTube couldn't survive without Google's money and engineering ability, and Google didn't understand how to quickly iterate in social products.