Re:Larry Page: “I think we should look into acquiring YouTub...
by simonh on Sunday September 05, 2021 @11:30AM
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One of them wrote something like that, and seemed against the idea on that basis because there were other options Yahoo could go for. That was basically an argument for not doing the deal because it would only, maybe have those effects, but that wasn’t the opinion of the others. Ultimately that’s not why they bought them anyway. So no, not really.
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Re:Larry Page: “I think we should look into acquiring YouTub...
by ineedasername on Sunday September 05, 2021 @12:06PM
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Ultimately that’s not why they bought them anyway. So no, not really
That's not relevant to the fact that limiting competition was their very first consideration.
And other competitors were seen as lesser value because of their location, not to mention the fact that the reply to that argument was that just talking to them would still hurt competition by making any acquisition more expensive.
Just because Google ultimately found YouTube to be valuable doesn't change the fact that their first motive was to limit competition.