[158001] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google/Youtube problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (joel jaeggli)
Mon Nov 19 11:55:54 2012
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:55:24 -0800
From: joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi>
In-Reply-To: <20121119135922.GA8266@pob.ytti.fi>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 11/19/12 5:59 AM, Saku Ytti wrote:
> What I'm trying to say, I can't see youtube generating anywhere nearly
> enough revenue who shift 10% (or more) of Internet. And to explain
> this conundrum to myself, I've speculated accounting magic (which I'd
> frown upon) and leveraging market position to get free capacity (which
> is ok, I'd do the same, had I the leverage)
Or there's a simpler explanation. Which is that it makes money either
directly or as part of a salubrious interaction with other google
properties.
They had about 2.5Billion left over for their trouble in the quarter
ending 9/30 which isn't too shabby on a gross of 14 billion.
