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YouTubers: The Google Check Is In The Mail

By: Nathan Weinberg
2006-12-04

Heres a semi-funny YouTube video about one YouTuber who headed down to the Googleplex and got an exclusive sit-down...

...with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, "revealing" that Google will pay anyone who uploaded a YouTube video a share of the $1.65 billion purchase price, based on the number of views their video had.

Link: Here's a semi-funny YouTube video



Naturally, some people actually believed it, and started calculating how much money they were due for their videos. Sorry, but it looks like sitting in front of a webcam and lipsyncing songs may never be the path to megadollars we hoped it would be.

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Nathan Weinberg writes the popular InsideGoogle blog, offering the latest news and insights about Google and search engines.

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