{"id":1686,"date":"2006-10-09T14:34:46","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T21:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/09\/one-point-six-billion\/"},"modified":"2006-10-09T14:34:46","modified_gmt":"2006-10-09T21:34:46","slug":"one-point-six-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/09\/one-point-six-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"one point six billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/intl\/en\/press\/pressrel\/google_youtube.html\"> google buys youtube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t google try their own video thing? If you have it, then you can pay 1.6 billion for making your own solution worse than the one coming out of a garage somewhere. The only problem is, that once you start doing this you loose the edge. Gmail was the last thing that google did that really worked. Search is still of amazing quality for them. 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