Well said. And as Peter Chane himself noted in one of those emails, "there are 20 more sites like this that Yahoo could go out and buy". In order for Google to

Well said. And as Peter Chane himself noted in one of those emails, "there are 20 more sites like this that Yahoo could go out and buy". In order for Google to effectively gobble up the competition, they would need to go on a video site acquisition spree far beyond YouTube -- and they didn't. From their behavior, it really does look like Google was buying YouTube because they thought the two companies would complement each other.