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I find this a rather strange article. Flash back in time to before Google was All-About-Ads: Google can not keep subsidizing its search users! Clearly they wor
by litewulf 17y ago
I find this a rather strange article. Flash back in time to before Google was All-About-Ads:
Google can not keep subsidizing its search users! Clearly they work great, but the tech demo is over, and its not as effective at selling their corporate search product as it should be, they need to get out of web search and do X!
Its entirely possible that Google will do something other than "charge users" to make Youtube profitable, since Google pretty much hasn't done that for any of their other products.
- aminuit 17y agoYouTube probably costs a small fortune, even in Google terms, to keep running. So I think the question is: how long can they keep running YouTube at a huge loss before shareholders grow unhappy?
- litewulf 17y agoRight. Lets return to my original Google Search analogy. Google Search costs Google a fortune to run, theres all this indexing and bandwidth and serving infrastructure thats just being wasted. Remember at the time most people were looking at Google's enterprise search boxes to be the money bringer. Sometimes what works is a sideways shift and not "monetize what you're already doing".