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> The system is so inefficient that it finances almost the complete operation of Alphabet/Google. Since Youtube is wildly unprofitable, Alphabet/Google has to
by stephengillie 8y ago
> The system is so inefficient that it finances almost the complete operation of Alphabet/Google.
Since Youtube is wildly unprofitable, Alphabet/Google has to be funneling in money generated from other sources. Thus, Youtube is funded by ads, just mostly not from the ads on Youtube.
- yuhong 8y agoIt was mentioned in a private email that the only reason YouTube exists is that Google's servers happens to have a lot of free disk space in the days before SSDs.
- lbearl 8y agoYouTube was a separate company acquired by Google in 2006: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_YouTube https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_YouTube
- yuhong 8y agoYep, I mean YouTube existing within Google obviously.
- cortesoft 8y agoIs the limiting factor for youtube really disk space? I would imagine it is bandwidth.
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