Newsweek: Why YouTube may be Google’s biggest mistake

Courtesy MSNBC.com: Gadgets  Fri, 07/10/2009 - 15:55

YouTube is the third-biggest site on the Internet, with 426 million monthly visitors who upload 20 hours of video every minute.

But the more stuff people put on YouTube, the more computers and data-storage equipment Google must buy. The bigger YouTube gets, the more Google must spend to keep it running.

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