Google again...buys YouTube for 1.65$ billion!!

YouTube.com though started in Feb 2005, was fast to pick up the momentum and creating a new breed of video hosting, streaming and sharing, and today has a few million users. It's unique style and simplicity made it popular from word "go". As in the cases of orkut.com, blogspot.com, x, y, z.. Google once again found this one, and did not hold back, and bought youtube.com for a whopping 1.65$ billion on stock. This merger brings together the web's biggest video entertainer and sharing community with the technical giants of data organizing and searching.
Though Google said that Youtube will operate independently to preserve its brand and passion, this really gets the equation more interesting. Google already has it's own video sharing service called Google video, and recently it was quoted Google saying, youtube is better than Google video as it allows instantaneous availability of uploads. Now Google's umbrella of services are widening like anything!
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