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Old 03-24-2009, 05:16 AM  
CarlosTheGaucho
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Originally Posted by potter View Post
1. Advertising like that isn't about making people go buy your product right then and there. Think Budweiser & Coke. Neither put out a commercial to see profits rise instantly. They both OWN the market. Their commercials don't do shit other than keep their image in their consumers mind.

2. Who knows how much bandwidth Google owns. You can't look at it like we look at bandwidth. Google doesn't buy a server and pay overages when they exceed their limit. Google is bigger than most bandwidth/service providers. You think they don't own enough bandwidth to allow youtube to grow ten times it's size and still have left over bandwidth usage?
Good points

To the point #2

Let me mention they're definitely trying to cut down their bandwith costs, many times I get "this video is not available in your country" if I search for something specific, and also their servers work shitty in general, the connectivity is much slower than it used to be with the same connection.
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