Comments on: Google Confirms Stake in Xunlei http://gigaom.com/2007/01/05/google-confirms-xunlei/ Tracking the Internet Evolution Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:37:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: P2P YouTube - PPVA | 6Patlar http://gigaom.com/2007/01/05/google-confirms-xunlei/#comment-899327 P2P YouTube - PPVA | 6Patlar Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:39:53 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/01/05/google-confirms-xunlei/#comment-899327 [...] rahatsız olur mu? Google 2006 sonlarında Xunlei adlı bir P2P şirketine 5 milyon dolar yatırım yapmıştı. Xunlei’nin download manager’ı da neredeyse PPVA gibi çalışmakta, http [...] [...] rahatsız olur mu? Google 2006 sonlarında Xunlei adlı bir P2P şirketine 5 milyon dolar yatırım yapmıştı. Xunlei’nin download manager’ı da neredeyse PPVA gibi çalışmakta, http [...]

]]> By: P2P Is Coming To YouTube « NewTeeVee http://gigaom.com/2007/01/05/google-confirms-xunlei/#comment-899304 P2P Is Coming To YouTube « NewTeeVee Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:31:09 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/01/05/google-confirms-xunlei/#comment-899304 [...] Google will get upset about PPLive’s experiment? Only if they’re hypocrites: Google invested $5 million in a Chinese P2P startup called Xunlei in late 2006. And guess what? Xunlei’s download [...] [...] Google will get upset about PPLive’s experiment? Only if they’re hypocrites: Google invested $5 million in a Chinese P2P startup called Xunlei in late 2006. And guess what? Xunlei’s download [...]

]]> By: Three reasons why video is the Holy Grail of P2P | P2P Research Institute Blog http://gigaom.com/2007/01/05/google-confirms-xunlei/#comment-889671 Three reasons why video is the Holy Grail of P2P | P2P Research Institute Blog Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:56:09 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/01/05/google-confirms-xunlei/#comment-889671 [...] China has a number of well-funded start ups developing their own P2P video streaming technologies. Blin.cn claims to be 50x faster than BitTorrent for video streaming. Google is an investor in Chinese streaming company Xunlei. [...] [...] China has a number of well-funded start ups developing their own P2P video streaming technologies. Blin.cn claims to be 50x faster than BitTorrent for video streaming. Google is an investor in Chinese streaming company Xunlei. [...]

]]> By: bizy http://gigaom.com/2007/01/05/google-confirms-xunlei/#comment-81236 bizy Sat, 06 Jan 2007 01:53:08 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/01/05/google-confirms-xunlei/#comment-81236 <p>Google has no problems with piracy. Xunlei is a bigger enabler of piracy than even youtube. The US content rights holders should now add China to the areas from which they want a Google payment to allow Google to keep running their content on Youtube and now Xunlei. </p> <p>I am guessing that Google made this deal for the following reasons: A. Makes Google's default search service within the xunlei application B.Gives Google a scaled platform on which to start testing video Google ads in China C. Starting to ramp up marketing spend to begin to battle Baidu. I think Google has been holding back on some marketing dollars until they felt their product and infrastructure was really in place in China. Now it is, so watch out Baidu. Google could spend on more on marketing in China than Baidu's total revenue in a year (225-250M USD in 2007) with basically no impact to Google's global bottom line. </p> <p>One bit of complete speculation I heard from a friend in China's Internet business. Why couldn't they take the Xunlei technology and roll it out in the US, to compete with all the Bittorrent clients out there?</p> Google has no problems with piracy. Xunlei is a bigger enabler of piracy than even youtube. The US content rights holders should now add China to the areas from which they want a Google payment to allow Google to keep running their content on Youtube and now Xunlei.

I am guessing that Google made this deal for the following reasons:
A. Makes Google’s default search service within the xunlei application
B.Gives Google a scaled platform on which to start testing video Google ads in China
C. Starting to ramp up marketing spend to begin to battle Baidu. I think Google has been holding back on some marketing dollars until they felt their product and infrastructure was really in place in China. Now it is, so watch out Baidu. Google could spend on more on marketing in China than Baidu’s total revenue in a year (225-250M USD in 2007) with basically no impact to Google’s global bottom line.

One bit of complete speculation I heard from a friend in China’s Internet business. Why couldn’t they take the Xunlei technology and roll it out in the US, to compete with all the Bittorrent clients out there?

]]> By: tk http://gigaom.com/2007/01/05/google-confirms-xunlei/#comment-81234 tk Fri, 05 Jan 2007 22:41:59 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/01/05/google-confirms-xunlei/#comment-81234 <p>cool… so much for "do no evil". In the near future, I can use google search in Xunlei to search for all the illegal download sites.</p> <p>Oh, "Children of Men" is playing now. Well, why do I have to go see it? I can just go to Xunlei and search for download. </p> <p>http://wstatic.xunlei.com/content/87772FC9211699AF119721D670B353F0451A8B5E.html</p> <p>I love you google! You make illegal download so easy.</p> cool… so much for “do no evil”. In the near future, I can use google search in Xunlei to search for all the illegal download sites.

Oh, “Children of Men” is playing now. Well, why do I have to go see it? I can just go to Xunlei and search for download.

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I love you google! You make illegal download so easy.

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