Hello SDLP Youth… How are you?

It was nice to get a link from the SDLP Youth web site.

I only got it because I linked to a video on YouTube where two Canadian radio comedians prank Sarah Palin – and the youngsters in the SDLP saw it (-and apparrently, that’s the kind of thing the SDLP Youth enjoy!).

According to a feature in American newspaper “USA Today”, this is what’s going to happen following the YouTube/Google merger:

• Search Google for “plumbing toilet flusher” and you’ll probably find a how-to video on YouTube. “For queries like that, a lot of times video is the best result,” Google’s Page says.
• “Google video doesn’t go away ever — I want to make that clear,” Schmidt (Google CEO) says.
• Google did, in fact, promise to leave YouTube alone — it will keep all its employees, separate headquarters, its own brand.
• Right now, for instance, a search on Google Video will not find a video that’s on YouTube. That will change.

Interesting? … We’ll see. YouTube is an excellent service and Google’s input into it can only improve it, I guess. I’d be surprised if, in the long run, they stuck with the promise of leaving YouTube with its own branding, etc. but time will tell.

In the meantime, here’s a video from the YouTube founders, in which they talk about the buy-out: