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I mean take a look at who is the major owner of both Google & UTube. It is Sequioa capital. Can't you see the mind game that they are playing with people? On one hand Sequioa capital buys UTube shares for 5 Cents per share, same for what they paid for Google shares, OTOH they get Google to buy these shares off their hand for something like $100 per share ($1.6Bill valuation) and then they turn around dump the Google shares, which they have now hyped even higher due to this purchase, on the unsuspecting public who has no idea this shell game is going on, who has no idea that the main Google & UTube owners are the same Sequioa capital.
BTW, Sequioa also is/was major owner of Yahoo.
Cant you see the game they are playing!
One must give it to these people, they are damn smart. Or the masses damn blind
to not notice this game that the SiliconValley + WallStreet VC & Investment Banking mafia have
been playing at their expense for some time now.
Look what we need is not search engines that are in 100s of different businesses today and getting into ever more tomorrow, as are the case with the Google & Yahoo search engine monopolies.
What we need is a pure search engine player who is ONLY AND ONLY in the search engine business, thus we are certain that it's results will not be biased to the 100s of different business interests that they have. And we can be safe from them unfairly promoting their business interest over our businesses. That is why I have been using Anoox search engine and urging all to switch
to Anoox. You can find them here in case:
www.anoox.com
Say "NO" to search engine media monopolies, that are little by little taking over the Web, well whatever lucrative good parts of the Web there are, and say "Yes..." to search engine freedom by switching to the Not-for-Profit and Open source Anoox search engine.
Lets take back the Web :)
- you tube sellout
- by chewy52 October 18, 2006 3:26 PM PDT
- so google have made another site ? i awiat to see how thay handel copyright older members to you tube will all be choked as it leave them in a state of limbo i await what plans google plans to make with the you tube franchise? and I wont hold my breath.
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