[JDDunn9]

So when Google's Panda update killed tons of user-generated-content sites like Mahalo, eHow, HubPages, etc., and greatly improved YouTube's (which is 99% garbage) rankings, that was pure co-incidence?

What about when Google rolled out universal search only after buying YouTube?

[SquareWheel]

    "What about when Google rolled out universal search only after buying YouTube?"

Because the technology wasn't built then? Google had a video platform before they owned Youtube, you know.

[rossjudson]

I don't miss any of the crap content factory sites. Do you?

[JDDunn9]

Nope, and I wouldn't miss YouTube's crap factory site from the SERPS either.