Google is going to buy YouTube for more money than I can imagine – I am picturing a stack of fivers that stands about as tall as Paul Daniels, which is roughly twenty five quid. But the real sum is $1.65bn in stocks... So, what can it all mean? 

Well, if you want to know what the grass roots thinks, where better to go than YouTube itself, where you can find out what its users are saying. 

Digitalbrain.. says, “Google has the resources to er, maybe even make YouTube faster.” Then adds that it could, potentially, “maybe implement it with Gmail which would be “bloody fine”

Mike Swanson uses his Wall Street Video section of the site to let you know that he can’t believe that anyone is talking about the deal on YouTube. Well Mike, you don’t have far to look for proof, because you are talking about it yourself, and guess where... 

Mike sums up the stock market thus.. “when it comes to the stockmarket… when things line up and you anticipate some things to happen. And then you see it happening the next day and it doesn’t happen…” Er, I think we’ll leave it there, but thank you Mike.

Meanwhile, Randomboy321 thinks that Google should spend the money on doing its own web site up, which makes him just about as useless a commentator as you could find. Oh.. until we meet Paindrain.

Paindrain looks like the best bet, and indeed he cuts right to the chase. "I don't think it is a good idea".

He then explains the inherent insanity of the stock market in a way that Mike could only ever dream of. “F**k. Look at the stock for f**king Google. The s**t is above Microsoft. That s**t is like $400 a share. That s**t is crazy.”

Which, I hope you will agree, is very succinct.

Paindrain is at a loss to explain why Google might buy the site, but thinks it might be to boost user numbers. Except, he doesn't really think that either.  “They are trying to gain popularity? Everybody uses them." Except they don't do they Painy..."I actually use Ask.com... Most of the time."

Do you use it or not?  "I’ll go to Google… if I can’t find what I am looking for quick enough…”

Oh for goodness sakes!