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PostPosted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 6:11 pm 
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YouTube's ready to select a winner


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Google declares end of YouTube in April Fool's prank

In an elaborate ruse, the world's most popular video site announces it's been nothing but a contest site this whole time and says it's going dark for the next decade.

by Eric Mack
March 31, 2013 12:01 PM PDT

The best April Fool's pranks are absurd but also have a kernel of believability at their core just big enough to reel people in.

While the notion that YouTube has been a 8-year-long contest and Google is finally choosing a winner and shutting the site down tonight is pretty hard to swallow on its face, Google did shock many people by announcing the shutdown of Google Reader recently. Perhaps Larry and Sergey are beginning to go all Howard Hughes on us?

That's how the below video just put out by YouTube operates. The basic premise is that YouTube has been nothing but a contest to find the best video, and the 8-year-long submission period is finally closing tonight.

As YouTube's "competition director" Tim Liston -- a person who appears to be as fictional as his title -- tells us, YouTube will go dark for a decade to give thousands of judges 10 years to go through all the uploaded videos and declare one winner, which will be the only video on the site when YouTube relaunches in 2023.

....more at link
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-575771 ... ols-prank/

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 6:22 pm 
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Shame... I wanted to win a prize :60

Thank you for uploading 386 videos and good luck! Find out what happens next. :91

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Whew ... scared me! :94


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