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YouTube is morphing into a popular search engine and a new entry point into the Web.

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I'm very impressed that YouTube has gotten to this point, but this is a great example of how the net evolves in unexpected ways.

Amazingly, YouTube is the number two search site after Google - http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/39777/113/

7.6 billion for Google and 2.6 billion for YouTube as of last August.

I hear and I forget. I SEE and I REMEMBER. I do and I understand. -- Confucius

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

-- Ben Franklin

So which company's PR team planted this, Blinkx or AdaptiveBlue.com?

My money's on AdaptiveBlue

THANK you. Fluff pieces like this in big media make me sick.

I've heard of this kind of usage before, and it caught me totally by surprise. Google must be loving this. It's no longer a funny/music/weird video portal, it's now a place where people go to find information and knowledge (even more since they moved googletalks into youtube).

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