Google Earth takes on a sinister new meaning...
 

...with the purchase of Youtube. What's next? PlentyOfFish and Wikipedia? Hey, maybe they'll snatch up Microsoft, Apple and IBM soon.

What kind of world would that be?

It will be the same world... only owned by a funny named company.

Just a single blow in a clash of titans. Yahoo and MS will probably make some huge moves within a year. We'll see a lot of consolidation in the next decade or so, but hey, we already knew that, right?

Since their motto is 'Do no evil' it would probably be a good world without nuclear weapons.

What's PlentyOfFish?

lol have you noticed:

Microsoft (MSFT) Market Cap: 276.37B
Google (GOOG) Market Cap: 130.57B

you notice that gap has been getting smaller and smaller lately :)

Google will be Big Brother one day. They're already watching us, only a matter of time before they start controlling!

Personally i love google, everything they touch turns to gold. I would give the CEO head (and I'm straight).

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

You would cease to be straight from that day forth.

Do you guys remember that crazy Google flash video someone made a year or two ago about the future of Google, the internet and the way we get news? How it would create news based on what we wanted to hear and print would become for the elite only?

Crazy video, but cool to watch.

Now it's one step closer....

News that tells you only what you want to hear? That would be very strange. :Oh crap

if i was them i would buy a ton of them.

Sort of like Fox news?

then google will be forced to do things the government wants :(

google is overhyped.

http://epic.makingithappen.co.uk/ols-master1.html

hmmm never thought...

I know someone who was working on just such a device. You feed it a few keywords (some nouns, some ajectives, etc) like "Bush, failure, iraq" and it would write you a whole story. He was offered several hundred thousand dollars by some group of investors who wanted to buy the technology, but hasnt sold yet.

According to Wikipedia..

"In Christian eschatology and Islam, the Antichrist, Anti-christ or Dajjal (literally: anti, opposite; christ, messiah) has come to mean a person, image of a person, or other entity that is the embodiment of evil and utterly opposed to truth, according to Christianity, while convincingly disguised as wholly good and a bringer of truth. "

Google is the next anti-christ!

Google will soon support electoral campaign of some representatives for the house of congress.. :pimp

My bet is as more apps become web based instead of residing on your PC, MS's hold on the world's PC is going to evaporate, and Google will end up buying Microsoft just to put the final nail in the coffin. Linux is going to be the only OS needed and it will be free. You'll only store your data files on the PC, and perform the apps off of web servers. No more software updates or upgrades needed.

MS has certainly done a lot for the evolution of computing, but in the process they decided their business model would be crush all the competition you can, to stifle innovation which could displace their products, and with that attitude at the core of their corporate mantra, it was inevitable alongside of being one of America's most admired companies, they would be one of the most despised.

What's plentyoffish?

google will rule the world before i die, mark my words... and i will be waiting, and loving it.

It's only a matter of time before people turn on Google just like they did big bad Microsoft.

People seem to forget that Googles main point of value is still SEARCHES.
99% of their income is still from those searches. And except for Gmail
no spinoff product has really been successful.

A new search engine and google is exit. Stupid purchases like youtube
to compensate a previously failed video.google etc wont help much.

Google is a big big big bubble going down

Google's motto is "Do no evil"

Its all good for googletube

AHAHHAHAHA!!!

google is sponsering north korea :upsidedow

uhhh, are you stupid?

video.google.com is not a "previously failed" project, out of the HUNDREDS of video sites, including the big ones, metacafe, vidilife.com, mojoflix.com etc, google videos is the NUMBER 2 video site, right behind youtube, which they now own..

you sure do need to check your facts, because you seem to have them all wrong

If I was google I would buy those sites and many more considered undervalued when valueing youtube at 1.6 bil. have traffic in house in every niche on many different levels

plentyoffish is huge...wish i could get there traffic..lol

Ok.. google starts a video service..2 kids start a video service..

2 kids end up first.. i call google failure

true

Mr. Romance

google just want all the best technology for themselves!

google bought youtube for the traffic, if you can't figure that out you shouldn't be here.

traffic+advertising=$

They want a piece of everything

you do know, the 2 "kids" who started youtube also started it with $50 million hey got from the sale of Paypal to Ebay right?

bill will be comming outta retirement to law the smack down shortly

an estimated 40% of google adwords clicks are fraud.. if google fixes that problem.. yep, they will lose 40% of their #1 income source.

Google is going to rule the internet world just as much as M$ rules softwares...

:2 cents:

Did you miss the part where Google bought YouTube? It wasn't the other way around.

Now Google has a huge lead on being first when it comes to video sites. YouTube and Google Video combined account for something like 50-60% of total video site traffic.