The 12 Most Expensive Acquisitions Made by Google

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4. YouTube

Price – $1.6 billion

In February 2005, three young employees of PayPal decided to create a way for everyone to share videos after failing to find footage of the Janet Jackson “wardrobe malfunction” incident at the 2004 Super Bowl.

It soon gained traction and caught the attention of Google. By October 2006, the tech giant had already snatched up $1.65 billion in Google Stock. Nowadays, YouTube is the most popular video sharing site in the world, with over a billion users that watch hundreds of millions of hours each day, according to company data.

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