I think my sense is that Larry and Sergey cared about YouTube because it was a search engine. It's debatable whether or not social media. I think if you call TikTok social media, you certainly call YouTube social media. To have a foothold there in that market, especially now that it's moving towards sort of e-commerce,. whatever, metaversity thing.

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