YouTube turns 8 - Daily News & Analysis

Video streaming website YouTube was launched today, eight years ago with a single video. Today, YouTube boasts of videos of people doing funny stuff, movie trailers, videos of animals, etc. "When YouTube's site first launched in May 2005, we never could have imagined the endless ways in which you would inspire, inform and entertain us every day. Today, more than 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. That's more than four days of video uploaded each minute! Every month, more than [one] billion people come to Youtube to access news, answer questions and have a little fun. That's almost one out of every two people on the internet," said YouTube in a blog post. The Google-owned video site was acquired by Google in 2006 for $1.65 billion and now boasting more than 100 hours of video uploaded every minute. via Technology - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNG_tDxVnS-czDSafJ7FV_ozs62bIA&url=http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/1837353/report-youtube-turns-8

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