from fishbowlny.com
If this was a sceince fiction movie this is about the time the protagonists would start getting freaked out by the rainbow-colored perma-smiling relentlessly-cheerful colony from the West seeping inexorably across the nation gobbling everything in its path, growing, growing, growing. Well, this is all too real — ALL TOO REAL — so we'd better get used to the fact that Google owns us, utterly. Today they confirmed the rumor swirling in the blogosphere, from LonelyGirl15 to all those dudes now wearing A:F6 shirts (402 and counting): Google has indeed purchased YouTube, for the whopping sum of $1.65 billion dollars — yes, we did say billion. Chump change for Google, but still. Rupert Murdoch must be apoplectic (unless he fiendishly planned it this way), and Sumner Redstone is no doubt looking for someone to fire. Sergey and Larry and Chad, meanwhile, are probably already cruisin' in the Party Plane, planning their next step for world domination. Guys, pick me up in the usual spot.
NB: Dylan at FishbowlNY says he is the first to coin "GoogTube" - and you thought finding a more goofy-sounding word than "Google" would be impossible. Update: Er, maybe not so much.
