OK, but the only reason (as per the post I was responding to originally)? Those ~100M videos a day were about 99M (I'm guessing here) more than Google Video wa

OK, but the only reason (as per the post I was responding to originally)? Those ~100M videos a day were about 99M (I'm guessing here) more than Google Video was doing at the time. I believe you that Google's technical prowess was a necessary condition to get YouTube to where they are today, but I find it hard to believe that YouTube did nothing whatsoever to warrant becoming the original name brand of web video in the first place.