Google Gadgets now available for Your Webpage, such as PacMan.

When I heard YouTube acquisition by Google, I though they got a big one in internet multi-player Pacman game.

us$1.65 billion was paid in a stock-for-stock, a value including "value generated a synergistic model".

YouTube is quite popular in Japan, even the website is not in Japanese. As of March, 2006 more than 2 million views per month (source : ITmedia, Internet Watch.

On the other hand, in Japan Yahoo keeps more search share than Google.

So, possibly Japanese preference with YouTube may help Google's search market share up ?

cf. Google YouTube related news, Search Trends : Google YouTube