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Working wi th Google

Text-Dependent Questions 1. Why did Google buy YouTube and what did the owners of YouTube receive in return? 2. What did Steve say to reassure users after Google bought his company? 3. What sort of problems did Google need to deal with after taking over YouTube?

4. What is the Partner Program and how does it work? 5. In addition to advertising, what is another way YouTube makes money? 6. What happened in June of 2011? Was this decision popular with everyone?

The success of Google+ never reached that of other social networking sites, but Google remains the most visited website on the Internet due to its search function, with YouTube being a close second, followed by Face- book. In 2014, YouTube was estimated to have about one billion unique visitors per month. Facebook had one hundred million less than YouTube. Steve Chen and his friends’ big idea has certainly paid off.