Well, I went to the trouble of tweaking the graphic, so I’ll keep it there, but “GooTube” sounds like it caters to a particular gendre of videos… Mashable! has a good summary of the rumors about Google buying YouTube. Personally I can’t see why they would do it. Going in so many directions seems to be stretching Google pretty thin, plus there seem to be a lot of people out there for whom Google has replaced Microsoft as their most hated evil empire. (Or maybe all the comments posted to every story about Google are Yahoos that are still upset that they can’t figure out how they lost so much market share so quickly.) Sucking up another popular service would just make them evil to that many more people.

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