Year Walk is more than just a simple game. Solve cryptic puzzles, touch and listen in your search to foresee the future and finally discover if your loved one will love you back. Venture out into the dark woods where strange creatures roam, on a vision quest set in 19th century Sweden. Here's how Simogo describes it:Įxperience the ancient Swedish phenomena of year walking through a different kind of first person adventure that blurs the line between two and three dimensions as well as reality and the supernatural. Unlike the aforementioned titles, Year Walk is a first person adventure game set in 19th century Sweden, with a dark and creepy atmosphere. But the gambit failed, Bergen wrote, and YouTube continued to trounce Google Video in traffic.Īfter the deal was struck, Schmidt told employees at Google Video's Mountain View, California, campus that they should pack up and join the YouTube team in their new offices just south of San Francisco in San Bruno, the book said.Year Walk is the newest app release from Simogo, the developer behind hit titles like Bumpy Road and Beat Sneak Bandit. The search giant pulled out all the stops to make Google Video a success, even linking to it on the search homepage. Schmidt also asked Hurley and Chen to upload a video to YouTube announcing the acquisition - a now-infamous low-resolution video that lives on the site to this day.īefore the deal, Google tried to take out YouTube by launching a competitive video-hosting platform, Google Video, which was led by Susan Wojcicki, one of Google's first employees, who is now YouTube's CEO.
Over the course of the year, Hurley and Chen got Google to increase its offer to $650 million from $50 million and, finally, to the eventual $1.65 billion deal. The book says the cofounders had even met Yahoo and Google's executives on different days at the same Denny's near YouTube's offices in San Mateo, California.
Throughout 2006, Yahoo and Google courted Hurley and the site's other cofounder Steve Chen. Within a year of its founding in 2005, YouTube had become a hot commodity, with traffic and freshly uploaded content surging. The previously unreported episode comes from the book "Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination" by the Bloomberg reporter Mark Bergen. Google's CEO at the time, Eric Schmidt, was able to calm Hurley down enough to close the $1.65 billion deal - a deal that became a pivot point in the development of the modern internet. Hurley was so irked by the invasion of YouTube's business that he threatened to walk away from the deal, a new book about YouTube's founding reveals. On the eve of Google's acquisition of YouTube in 2006, the video site's cofounder Chad Hurley discovered that a Google ad manager had snooped on YouTube's revenue figures.
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