[BNM] Google's acquisition of YouTube

[Ant]

I start to see why the founders are concerned that they're diversifying too 
much too fast now - I didn't know about that, or the music search, and that 
would be something I'd zoom in on.

Hmm...

A

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Tong - TalkWebSolutions.co.uk" <nicktong at gmail.com>
To: "Brighton New Media" <bnmlist at brightonnewmedia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 8:28 PM
Subject: Re: [BNM] Google's acquisition of YouTube


and music:
http://www.succor.co.uk/index.cfm/2006/9/15/Google-move-into-the-music-arena

On 10/10/06, Josh Crawford <joshgcrawford at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sure, I think I understand what you mean?
>
> the web - http://www.google.co.uk/
> video - http://video.google.co.uk/
> books - http://books.google.co.uk/
> images - http://images.google.com/
> email - http://www.gmail.com
> maps - http://maps.google.co.uk/
>
>
> On 10/10/06, Dan Eastwell <daneastwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > "with Google buying YouTube they now have the power to control searching
> > of
> > the web, video, books, images, email, and geographic locations."
> >
> > <intent: intrigued, rather than challenging> How do you mean? Could you
> > expand on those?
> >
> >
> >
> > On 10/10/06, Josh Crawford <joshgcrawford at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm surprised there hasn't been much talk of this on the list but
> anyhow
> > > with Google buying YouTube they now have the power to control
> searching
> > of
> > > the web, video, books, images, email, and geographic locations.  They
> > also
> > > control much of web advertising and can monitor trends through their
> web
> > > stats system.  They are good at what they do but I think they are
> > > dangerously moving towards becoming a monopoly, and one that has much
> > > bigger
> > > ramifications than Microsoft.  Is anyone else at least a little bit
> > > concerned?
> > >
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