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