Google/Youtube problems

joel jaeggli joelja at bogus.com
Mon Nov 19 16:55:24 UTC 2012


On 11/19/12 5:59 AM, Saku Ytti wrote:
> What I'm trying to say, I can't see youtube generating anywhere nearly 
> enough revenue who shift 10% (or more) of Internet. And to explain 
> this conundrum to myself, I've speculated accounting magic (which I'd 
> frown upon) and leveraging market position to get free capacity (which 
> is ok, I'd do the same, had I the leverage) 
Or there's a simpler explanation. Which is that it makes money either 
directly or as part of a salubrious interaction with other google 
properties.

They had about 2.5Billion left over for their trouble in the quarter 
ending 9/30 which isn't too shabby on a gross of 14 billion.




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