GooTube is dead
Recently I have amused myself by fantasizing about the GooTube meme dying, much in the same way I fantasize that I don’t exist in the same universe with other celebrity pairings like TomKat and Brangelina. At least GooTube hasn’t gone to Africa to adopt an orphaned startup yet.
Luckily, as of today, the GooTube meme is so dead it’s moved beyond the flogging stage. That leaves us with nothing but questions about what Google plans to do with its newly-acquired video sharing portal full of barfing kitten videos and clips from The Colbert Report. Will it turn billion-dollar baby YouTube into a new place for ads? (Obviously.) Will it turn YouTube into a test case to make better intellectual property law? (Hopefully.) But there’s an even more important question, which is whether Google will sacrifice YouTube’s best feature: video findability. Now there’s a wonky cliffhanger. Want to know more? Read my column.
