Couple of days back Michael Arrington of Techcrunch reported that Google is likely to acquire youtube, the best video sharing site so far. Now Wall St.Journal has also cofirmed
about the Google and YouTube acquisition talks.If you wonder why is google planning to acquire YouTube when it has a videos sharing site(Google video) on its own? interesting traffic stats and discussion posted by hitwise can answer your questions partly, the rest is wierd. Looking back to google’s acquisition path it has acquired a lot of startups, of which am listing a few..
- Pyra Labs, a weblogging provider and owner of Blogger was acquired.
- picasa(Photo storage) was acquired.
- Kaltix, a small start-up, was acquired to develop and launch Personalized Search.
- Keyhole was acquired for Google Earth
- 2Web Technologies was acquired for google spreadsheet.
- Urchin Software Corporation was acquired to develop and launch Google Analytics.
- writely , a product of Upstartle , a silicon valley startup was acquired for google writely(Online Word Processor).
If at all this acquisition happens, my feeling is that google has wasted its money instead it could have improved its products including google videos. Though google has been releasing product after product, truth is that lot of thier products haven’t faced any recent update and most of them are yet to go out of beta.
