Google Acquiring YouTube
October 9, 2006 | 3 Comments
Google is in the process of acquiring YouTube for $1.65 billion.
According to the press release:
The acquisition combines one of the largest and fastest growing online video entertainment communities with Google’s expertise in organizing information and creating new models for advertising on the Internet. The combined companies will focus on providing a better, more comprehensive experience for users interested in uploading, watching and sharing videos, and will offer new opportunities for professional content owners to distribute their work to reach a vast new audience.
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When the acquisition is complete, YouTube will retain its distinct brand identity, strengthening and complementing Google’s own fast-growing video business. YouTube will continue to be based in San Bruno, CA, and all YouTube employees will remain with the company. With Google’s technology, advertiser relationships and global reach, YouTube will continue to build on its success as one of the world’s most popular services for video entertainment.
Since YouTube will be “strengthening and complementing Google’s own fast-growing video business”, does this mean Google Video will remain intact with YouTube remaining in parallel? This would seem odd considering YouTube and Google Video are direct competitors. It only seems like good business sense to merge the two in some way.
The main positive to come out of this deal is that YouTube is not going away anytime soon. Knowing they had financial troubles and were rumored to be burning through venture capital money very quickly, most predictions suggested YouTube would implode if it did not find a sustainable business model. Google is the king of making these things work. Their vast user base, ad network, and searching capabilities should combine nicely with YouTube. Add to this their past history of succeeding with things people thought to large to sustain (see 2GB quotas in GMail), you have the perfect match here.
Tags: google, google video, network, search, video, youtube
Use Blingo, Not Google
December 12, 2005 | 7 Comments
I’m a big Google search fan. Consistently they have always provided me great results and they are fast. So why should I try to convince anyone to switch away from Google and use Blingo?
Frankly, it’s because their the same thing, except Blingo has the added benefit of awarding prizes at random to people who use it to search. What’s better, their search engine is powered by Google.
This means you lose nothing, but stand to gain all kinds of things. In addition, sign up through my link and we are forever hooked as friends. This means whatever either of us wins we both win it.
Sounds a lot like a scam, but here’s the thing, Blingo makes a pile of money off adsense advertising and they share a bit of that with us, their users. Simple concept, great execution.
Anyway, go signup, it couldn’t hurt…
Tags: adsense, blingo, google, search, search engine