In what I can only describe as, "ya think?" Google has bought YouTube for 1.65 billion. The company's largest acquisition to date. They describe the deal as "natural":
"The YouTube team has built an exciting and powerful media platform that complements Google's mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful," said Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google. (As quoted in AdAge)
Does this give anyone else pause? I am a Google fan - and have been since before the Google bandwagon went locomotive over the Internet landscape. But I'm starting to feel as if I've been hookwinked. It used to be that MicroSoft was the big bad. Has Google graced us with user-centric content to passify us into thinking they were on our side?
It should be worrisome to us all when one company's footprint grows so large that it blocks the sun. Godzilla never brought people flowers and presents when he came to town.
I'm suspect is all I'm saying.
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