Ever wonder why Google gives away so many web-developer tools? Tools that otherwise seem like complete money-and-bandwidth-pissing schemes (notice how most of these don’t directly show ads): Maps Widgets Charts API Open Social YouTube embeds Unified AJAX libraries Android General Search APIs This is all about obtaining browsing behavior in a long term bid to […]
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YouTube and Google?
Techcrunch just covered the possibility that Google is looking to buy YouTube for $1.6 billion. I think this acquisition makes a lot of sense. While it was pointed out that Google would be unafraid of the copyright issues, I think another reason why the acquisition is a safe bet is that Google can support the infrastructure […]
