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Do You Like YouTube?

I do!

By Bogdan Popa, Security and Search Engines Editor

24th of April 2007, 13:59 GMT

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At this time, YouTube is the leader of the online video sharing services, being owned by Google, the Mountain View-based company. If you have a closer look on the Internet, you

can observe there aren't too many alternatives to the Google product although numerous companies announced their plans to develop similar services. However, YouTube evolved a lot and attracted a huge number of visitors, managing to pay off Google's investment. Although the search giant's product is offering clips from numerous categories, some users might want to find an alternative that will help them to view other videos currently prohibited by YouTube.

Take the example of ScrewTube. The service was announced a few days ago and is meant to publish only the content prohibited on YouTube such as pornography or adult content. However, the service has only one major rule: all the movies must be homemade creations because they managed to attract the majority of users to a certain page.

Except YouTube, there are only a few video services that are able to fight with the Google product. At the time of the Google acquisition, Metacafe was a powerful rival that challenged YouTube for the leader position. Now, Metacafe is only a mediocre product because it is rarely improved and it's not promoted at all. However, some time ago rumors about a possible Yahoo acquisition that will compete with Google's YouTube were quickly spreading on the Internet, the giant portal refusing to comment them. It seems like the speculations were false because Metacafe remains an anonymous product.

So, if you don't like the content uploaded on YouTube, all you need to do is to close the webpage and do nothing more because there are no powerful alternatives. However, numerous companies announced their plans so we should wait a little longer and see what happens.

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