The Google empire grows:
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Google, the Internet's leading search engine, announced Monday that it is buying popular online video site YouTube for $1.65 million in stock.
YouTube, which was founded in February 2005, has quickly become the most well-known of several online video sites. More than 100 million videos, many of which are short videos created by the site's users, are downloaded a day on the site.Eat or be eaten.
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In a statement, Google said that YouTube will operate as an independent unit of Google once the deal closes and will retain the YouTube brand name.
5 comments:
Kind of makes my attempt to "cover myself" by posting videos to both services a little futile.
However, I doubt Google will go bust anytime soon.
JP
I think they should call it
Goog Lube!
Ha Ha.
YOUTUBE + GOOGLE great combo for a name YOU-GGLE or YOO-GGLE
yougle
i guess is a blirb of oogle-ing..
myspace is big but is now spoiled by all the advertising popups, it put me off.. plus it doesnt cater for the smaller countrys let alone regions..
well have you searched them names.. check out http://youggle.com
i just found it and it rocks... what a cool name YOUGGLE
wonder if they would sell the domain
Youggle or Youtube Youggle or Google youggle, i agree youggle is such a cool name!! why wasnt google called youggle, it would have made much more sense. cool website by the way, i hope it stays around
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