Google goldmine or legal landmine?

What motive lies behind Google's acquisition of the video-sharing site YouTube? Bernhard Warner suggests that the decision may have more to do with a desire to keep Silicon Valley rivals off its turf than with any great enthusiasm for YouTube itself.

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[leon]

I think there's something to that. The Google creators both said recently that their biggest threat isn't Microsoft, Yahoo! or Apple -- it's two guys sitting in a garage coming up with the next cool idea...