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Re:Larry Page: “I think we should look into acquiring YouTub... by ineedasername on Sunday September 05, 2021 @12:17PM (#28425431)
I did miss it, thanks. I avoid Twitter, so browsing it on a phone makes it easy (for me) to miss how they stacked the images.

But that doesn't change much about this story: what does it matter that they note features-- already on Google's roadmap-- when they then, as their stated reason for actually buying YouTube, is as a defensive move?

Basically: "YouTube has some nice features but we're already building them and just want the company so Yahoo can't have them."

That doesn't make this picture look any better for Google.

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Re:Larry Page: “I think we should look into acquiring YouTub... by PaulDavisThe1st on Sunday September 05, 2021 @12:46PM (#28425647)
> Basically: "YouTube has some nice features but we're already building them and just want the company so Yahoo can't have them."

That's not what it says. If you want to go that basic:

"Youtube is doing better at innovating here than us, but we have some stuff they don't, and if we acquired them we'd get the best of both worlds and deny it to Yahoo"

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Re:Larry Page: “I think we should look into acquiring YouTub... by nl on Monday September 06, 2021 @12:43AM (#28430342)
> That doesn't make this picture look any better for Google.

Even if you make the case this only anti-competitive there is nothing wrong with that behaviour by 2005 Google. It's not illegal or even significant in anyway.

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