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I take it you're not familiar with Bing's #1 use case and specialty.
I'm not. Do tell!
It is by many considered better than purpose built porn search sites, such as pornmd.
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Are you trying to imply that Youtube is a monopoly? Aren't there others like vimeo, etc.? Besides, there is nothing from technology perspective to make it a monopoly. All you need is a server rack and a bunch of web developers who can build such a site, right?
Youtube is a monopoly in a way Google is a monopoly. Just like how there's Bing and DuckDuckGo but most people use Google, most people use Youtube although some do use sites like vimeo. If you think it's so easy to build a site that competes with Google or Youtube you should go ahead and build one and overtake them. After all, nowadays everything is open sourced, you can even build your own search engine from scratch…
So not at all unless you change what having a monopoly is.
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This was the reason why I created http://img42.com . They bombard you with ads, and other "features". I wanted something where I could just click, drag and drop, or pate and it would be uploaded.
"easy temporary image hosting" - How long do images last before being removed? It was actually that drawback that lead me to making/using my own image host! With my own host, files that were uploaded back in 2012 when it first started working are still there - with the same URL (despite URL scheme changing since then)
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This was the reason why I created http://img42.com . They bombard you with ads, and other "features". I wanted something where I could just click, drag and drop, or pate and it would be uploaded.
Neat service. How do you plan to offset the hosting, storage, and bandwidth costs though?
But I have some scalable plans if it were to take off without breaking the bank.
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"easy temporary image hosting" - How long do images last before being removed? It was actually that drawback that lead me to making/using my own image host! With my own host, files that were uploaded back in 2012 when it first started working are still there - with the same URL (despite URL scheme changing since then)
You can change the image lifespan to forever. The site has been around since 2012, and images are still up.
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This was the reason why I created http://img42.com . They bombard you with ads, and other "features". I wanted something where I could just click, drag and drop, or pate and it would be uploaded.
> I got fed up with all the other image hosts out there so I made my own. It doesn't force you to compress your images, and it has neat things like crop, resize, rotate, and compression from 10-100. It's my gift to you. Let's not see anymore imageshack/photobucket around here ;) I'll be listening if anyone has some suggestions. EDIT: The server was moved off of shared hosting after about 4 hours of release. It's now…
I have been hosting img42 off a $5 a mo/ droplet :P. It has served XXm+ impressions, and 1m uploads since its creation. I also have been sustaining a ~3m a day DDOS from Russia for about a year now.
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You can change the image lifespan to forever. The site has been around since 2012, and images are still up.
Awesome, also interesting we both bailed on imgur at the same time. It must have been around then it got unbearable!
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This was the reason why I created http://img42.com . They bombard you with ads, and other "features". I wanted something where I could just click, drag and drop, or pate and it would be uploaded.
What an awesome UI, I love it. Thanks for making something so cool.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Videos They did make their own version of youtube at one point, apparently it wasn't enough and they wanted the userbase too.
Does anyone know if it was specifically the community/userbase that enticed Google, or was there some technical aspects to YouTube that Google couldn't or didn't want to build themselves?
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> Imgur is just a commodity. Youtube is not. Video hosting + community is a commodity. Image hosting + community is a commodity.
But most of imgur's audience is not even seeing the site or is just looking at a quick picture and then going back to reddit or some other referring site.