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October 31, 2006
Google Purchases YouTube
Much like facebook, YouTube is another popular site amongst college students. YouTube.com was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim in 2005. It's a site with videos full irreverant, yet hilarious home-made videos. Almost every college student receives e-mails with links to youtube videos with guys getting hit in the face with footballs or skaters falling down. It also hosts music videos, tv shows, and several other types of video clips. One appeal the site has is that it is easy to search for videos, view the favorite videos of other members with similar tastes, comments on videos, rate videos, easily upload your own home-made movies, shortage of clutter from ads, and it's large library of videos.
Recently, Youtube was bought by google. I can see why google made the purchase because google video is terrible. They barely have any videos and searching is difficult. However, I'm worried that the recent purchase by google will result in more ads in youtube. Some sources claim that now commercials will actually be played before you can watch the actual clip you are trying to view and more heavily censor the site. It seems like all the reasons youtube became popular are being undone by google, which is ironic because google bought youtube because it was popular.
Posted by meb40 at October 31, 2006 10:47 PM
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I was stalked on Youtube due to my baller-esque snowboarding skills. Holla at me if you like my snow-skills, shorty.
Posted by: Stefan Kirov at December 9, 2006 09:46 PM