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0 pointsedgyquant4y ago0 comments

YouTube is the largest social media site (or at least was a couple of years ago.) Google gets a lot more value than just cash out of it, otherwise they’d have shut it down.

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scarface744y ago

What value does Google get out of YouTube besides the minuscule profit?

_Algernon_4y ago

The second largest search engine and all the data that entails.

edgyquantOP4y ago

Having complete control over the vast majority of internet video content

scarface744y ago

There is nothing stopping content producers from hosting their own content on something like S3+CloudFront or the cheaper (than AWS) alternatives.

spixy4y ago

and yet they are not doing it

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scarface744y ago

What value does Google get out of YouTube besides the minuscule profit?

_Algernon_4y ago

The second largest search engine and all the data that entails.

edgyquantOP4y ago

Having complete control over the vast majority of internet video content

scarface744y ago

There is nothing stopping content producers from hosting their own content on something like S3+CloudFront or the cheaper (than AWS) alternatives.

spixy4y ago

and yet they are not doing it

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