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Old 04-14-2009, 10:51 PM  
pocketkangaroo
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Originally Posted by heymatty View Post
The data collected from youtube is one of the most valuable things a media company like google can have access too.
Exactly. They don't care if YouTube makes money, they just want the user data. They want targeted advertising and the more information they have on each surfer the better. If you think YouTube was purchased for the profit potential, you don't know how Google operates at all.
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