| YouTube escapes Google's piracy site smackdown
Google has admitted its own YouTube operation will not be affected by algo |
Leosghost
msg:4484420 | 10:02 pm on Aug 13, 2012 (gmt 0) |
| "We’re treating YouTube like any other site in search rankings," a Google spokesbot told Search Engine Land - then adding rather tellingly: "That said, we don’t expect this change to demote results for popular user-generated content sites." |
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Google paid $1.65bn for YouTube knowing that its success was based on infringement, not user-contributed videos of cats or toddlers, emails subsequently showed. (See Google knew YouTube did evil, but bought it anyway, March 2010.)
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[theregister.co.uk...]
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