YouTube sold to Google

Last Modified: 10 Oct 2006
By: Channel 4 News

Google buys the video-sharing site Youtube for $1.65bn. But is it a good deal?

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It could become Goo-Tube - or maybe Yoogle?

The worlds largest search engine has just bought the worlds largest online broadcaster, where millions meet over the internet to watch and share videos.

Google paid nearly a billion pounds for the You Tube website - a move which hasn't gone down well with many of its users.

So, will the deal secure Google's place as the most powerful player on the internet, or is it a mouse-click too far?

Our technology correspondent Benjamin Cohen went online to find out.

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We'd like to see what you think about Google's take over of YouTube.

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