Maven: It's Not Google That's Gone Wild

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We've had a day to digest the news of Google's (GOOG Quote) gobble of YouTube, and The Business Press Maven has an ensuing case of indigestion.

From The Washington Post to The New York Times, the snap, simpleton judgment is that the acquisition was reminiscent of the 1990s in that, well, it seems kind of crazy.

A pattern of crazy behavior is, of course, a great inverse indicator of a topped-out market, but Google, a single entity, has enough money to take a flier on trying to integrate a hot and comparatively small company. ...