YOUTUBE

1. What is YouTube.com?
YouTube is a popular free video sharing web site which lets users upload, view, and share video clips.

2. Who purchased YouTube.com? Why did they purchase it?
YouTube.com was made by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of Paypal and it was purchased by Google for US$1.65 billion in stock. They purchased it because YouTube is one of the fastest-growing websites on the World Wide Web and is ranked as the 10th most popular website. It also far outpacing even Myspace's growth. About 100 million clips are viewed daily on YouTube, with an additional 65,000 new videos uploaded per 24 hours.

3. Is it worth that much money?Why or why not?
It is definitly worth that much money becuase it's a very popular website and alot of people veiw this site.