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The YouTube acquisition wasn't just about buying a streaming video company. It's not about losing money on every sale and making it up in volume. The YouTube
by iamelgringo 18y ago
The YouTube acquisition wasn't just about buying a streaming video company. It's not about losing money on every sale and making it up in volume. The YouTube acquisition was about getting Google's engineers a huge dataset of video to start running search on. Google's all about trying to do things with huge datasets.
- alaskamiller 18y agoThat and plus to make sure Youtube doesn't ever lose the safe harbor context argument to create the legal precedent that may unsettle quite a few things on the world wide web.
- mrkurt 18y agoYou don't spend $1.65 billion on a dataset. You spend it on eyeballs. Eyeballs they got, though they haven't been able to turn them into money.
- Hexstream 18y agoDoes everything have to be mutually exclusive?!
- acgourley 18y agoGoogle videos may have been losing, but they had enough data to work with for video search, if they were even actively pursuing it.