Google Inc. Buys Youtube

[Kontrolz]

In that statement I wasn't speaking only about google, but you probably knew that anyway.

[Troll King]

Cheaper products? How much have you ever had to pay for Google's products?

[Kontrolz]

So its already using unattractive business practices; what stands to change from Google's aquisition? People are moaning about how the larger companies swallow up the smaller companies but in a few years time Youtube would join the ranks of the larger companies itself without needing a leg up, and then it would probably be doing its own swallowing

Of course. This is all common sense. The point is if Google or other larger companies didn't buy out these smaller ones there would be more competetion at the top and thus more productive and cheaper products/services. Free market is in shambles in the global economy and this is just a footnote.

[ZeUs!!]

Check out that link further up. Youtube is now being forced to use copyright detecting software so that they can send notices to the owner(s) of the copyrighted material and offer them the choice of removing it from youtube's server.

So its already using unattractive business practices; what stands to change from Google's aquisition? People are moaning about how the larger companies swallow up the smaller companies but in a few years time Youtube would join the ranks of the larger companies itself without needing a leg up, and then it would probably be doing its own swallowing

[DoTheFandango]

Check out that link further up. Youtube is now being forced to use copyright detecting software so that they can send notices to the owner(s) of the copyrighted material and offer them the choice of removing it from youtube's server.

Is this bad?

[Kontrolz]

I'm sure that if youtube had contined to grow at the rate it did then in a few years it too would become an evil corporation with shady business practices so I doubt anything has been changed

Check out that link further up. Youtube is now being forced to use copyright detecting software so that they can send notices to the owner(s) of the copyrighted material and offer them the choice of removing it from youtube's server.

[ZeUs!!]

I'm sure that if youtube had contined to grow at the rate it did then in a few years it too would become an evil corporation with shady business practices so I doubt anything has been changed

[Edify]

Google was the first search engine to use a cookie that expires in 2038.

I'm not even kidding about that screenshot. That was a couple days ago. Yahoo and google have some ties. :fear:

[Kontrolz]

Oooo im the admin, gg.

[phata$$]

:busted: Copyright Infringement!!! :busted:

[DoTheFandango]

Ok, I'll copy and paste a few:

http://www.google-watch.org/bigbro.html

ASSFAG

[Centurion]

Ok, I'll name a few:

*Claps*

ctrl c ctrl v

[Kontrolz]

Name one thing bad about google.

Ok, I'll name a few:

1. Google's immortal cookie:
Google was the first search engine to use a cookie that expires in 2038. This was at a time when federal websites were prohibited from using persistent cookies altogether. Now it's years later, and immortal cookies are commonplace among search engines; Google set the standard because no one bothered to challenge them. This cookie places a unique ID number on your hard disk. Anytime you land on a Google page, you get a Google cookie if you don't already have one. If you have one, they read and record your unique ID number.

2. Google records everything they can:
For all searches they record the cookie ID, your Internet IP address, the time and date, your search terms, and your browser configuration. Increasingly, Google is customizing results based on your IP number. This is referred to in the industry as "IP delivery based on geolocation."

3. Google retains all data indefinitely:
Google has no data retention policies. There is evidence that they are able to easily access all the user information they collect and save.

4. Google won't say why they need this data:
Inquiries to Google about their privacy policies are ignored. When the New York Times (2002-11-28) asked Sergey Brin about whether Google ever gets subpoenaed for this information, he had no comment.

5. Google hires spooks:
Matt Cutts, a key Google engineer, used to work for the National Security Agency. Google wants to hire more people with security clearances, so that they can peddle their corporate assets to the spooks in Washington.

6. Google's toolbar is spyware:
With the advanced features enabled, Google's free toolbar for Explorer phones home with every page you surf, and yes, it reads your cookie too. Their privacy policy confesses this, but that's only because Alexa lost a class-action lawsuit when their toolbar did the same thing, and their privacy policy failed to explain this. Worse yet, Google's toolbar updates to new versions quietly, and without asking. This means that if you have the toolbar installed, Google essentially has complete access to your hard disk every time you connect to Google (which is many times a day). Most software vendors, and even Microsoft, ask if you'd like an updated version. But not Google. Any software that updates automatically presents a massive security risk.

7. Google's cache copy is illegal:
Judging from Ninth Circuit precedent on the application of U.S. copyright laws to the Internet, Google's cache copy appears to be illegal. The only way a webmaster can avoid having his site cached on Google is to put a "noarchive" meta in the header of every page on his site. Surfers like the cache, but webmasters don't. Many webmasters have deleted questionable material from their sites, only to discover later that the problem pages live merrily on in Google's cache. The cache copy should be "opt-in" for webmasters, not "opt-out."

8. Google is not your friend:
By now Google enjoys a 75 percent monopoly for all external referrals to most websites. Webmasters cannot avoid seeking Google's approval these days, assuming they want to increase traffic to their site. If they try to take advantage of some of the known weaknesses in Google's semi-secret algorithms, they may find themselves penalized by Google, and their traffic disappears. There are no detailed, published standards issued by Google, and there is no appeal process for penalized sites. Google is completely unaccountable. Most of the time Google doesn't even answer email from webmasters.

9. Google is a privacy time bomb:
With 200 million searches per day, most from outside the U.S., Google amounts to a privacy disaster waiting to happen. Those newly-commissioned data-mining bureaucrats in Washington can only dream about the sort of slick efficiency that Google has already achieved.

[phata$$]

Ahh... YouTube. Say it isn't so!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061012/ap_on_hi_te/video_sharing_piracy;_ylt=AjSyMN87NE_Zum001dhdVf6s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3OTB1amhuBHNlYwNtdHM-

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