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Re:How GitHub Conquered Google, Microsoft, and Everyone Else by chuhnk on Thursday March 12, 2015 @03:32PM (#9193182)
Legitimate question. Do you think GitHub would accept a lucrative offer from Google? On the order of billions of dollars. How would that look? Where would we all be then? How much would it change things? Is it even realistic?
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Re:How GitHub Conquered Google, Microsoft, and Everyone Else by hyperbovine on Thursday March 12, 2015 @03:57PM (#9193392)
Google sells ads. Something like 98% of their revenue is ads. I seriously think they are at this point becoming allergic to any sort of for-pay business model.
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Re:How GitHub Conquered Google, Microsoft, and Everyone Else by aurora72 on Thursday March 12, 2015 @04:07PM (#9193474)
Just as a little correction, Google makes 6% of its revenue throgh Youtube, so saying 98% is from ads is wrong. Link: http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2015/02/27/10-year...
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Re:How GitHub Conquered Google, Microsoft, and Everyone Else by maratd on Thursday March 12, 2015 @04:12PM (#9193514)
> Google makes 6% of its revenue throgh Youtube, so saying 98% is from ads is wrong.

Doesn't Google make money on Youtube by showing ads?

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Re:How GitHub Conquered Google, Microsoft, and Everyone Else by duaneb on Thursday March 12, 2015 @04:48PM (#9193789)
YouTube also sells and rents movies.
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Re:How GitHub Conquered Google, Microsoft, and Everyone Else by ugh123 on Thursday March 12, 2015 @08:53PM (#9195077)
I highly doubt even .5% of their revenue comes from that.
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Re:How GitHub Conquered Google, Microsoft, and Everyone Else by huu on Thursday March 12, 2015 @04:32PM (#9193680)
Google has ad revenue sources that are not Youtube. Like you said, Youtube represents only a small part of its revenue stream, but this doesn't mean its revenue stream is not dominated by selling ads.
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Re:How GitHub Conquered Google, Microsoft, and Everyone Else by cobalt on Thursday March 12, 2015 @04:15PM (#9193541)
well, afaik, youtube makes 100% of its money from ads
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Re:How GitHub Conquered Google, Microsoft, and Everyone Else by arobertson on Thursday March 12, 2015 @04:46PM (#9193770)
Not that it really matters, but they do rent movies

https://www.youtube.com/user/movies

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Re:How GitHub Conquered Google, Microsoft, and Everyone Else by Mahn on Thursday March 12, 2015 @03:56PM (#9193379)
I think it's perfectly realistic, and wouldn't necessarily mean things would go south post take over. YouTube is still very much alive, brand and all, and it's been many years since the take over.
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Re:How GitHub Conquered Google, Microsoft, and Everyone Else by bronson on Thursday March 12, 2015 @05:30PM (#9194059)
But YouTube has definitely started south. One example: I was given a Google+ profile (no idea how), and I can't delete it because then all my YouTube videos get deleted. It's baffling.
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Re:How GitHub Conquered Google, Microsoft, and Everyone Else by ChuckMcM on Thursday March 12, 2015 @03:34PM (#9193199)
Actually, I don't think today's Google would make that bet because of challenges in monetizing it without actually incurring a customer service overhead.
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