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Someone one else would've bought YouTube. Or Vimeo would have become the #1 video site, and then maybe Microsoft or Amazon would have bought it. Still better th
by mtgx 8y ago
Someone one else would've bought YouTube. Or Vimeo would have become the #1 video site, and then maybe Microsoft or Amazon would have bought it. Still better than Google alone owning most of the biggest traffic sites.
- ucaetano 8y ago> Someone one else would've bought YouTube Google is probably the only non-telco who owns significant infrastructure. So other than Google, the only other option for YouTube would have been a telco. Are you sure you'd want a telco owning YouTube? Can you imagine how awful it would be? Vimeo is owned by IAC, who then owned AskJeeves, TripAdvisor, HotWire, LendingTree and today owns Tinder, OkCupid, Match.com, The Daily Beast, etc. You sure you'd want the top video website owned by IAC?
- treis 8y ago>Google is probably the only non-telco who owns significant infrastructure. So other than Google, the only other option for YouTube would have been a telco What about Amazon or Microsoft?
- ucaetano 8y agoThey don't own. They's recently (in the past 5 years) started taking part in building, but they don't own anything compared to Google and the major telcos.
- shereadsthenews 8y agoThey both have a lot of datacenters and private fiber between them but neither has anything like the ISP peering network that Google owns. Not even close.
- blub 8y agoAny of the above options would be better than the current reality, where Google is basically controlling video on the internet. They're long past their days of innocence.
- ucaetano 8y agoYeah, I'm sure you'd love Comcast owning YouTube.