On Google, YouTube Goes Viral, With Over 4 Billion Views Per Day

 One might easily say that YouTube has gone viral on itself, with video graphers posting half-hour worth of footage every second. The Google image uploading service has surpassed the 4 billion barrier every day and is rapidly approaching the 5 billion milestone.

Since Google bought YouTube in 2006, it's easy to see why it's "gone viral." Almost every news organization in the world encourages amateur video graphers and would-be journalists to post every footage they can find.

For example, during a significant tornado outbreak in the middle of the United States last summer, video was being uploaded to YouTube at an alarming rate. Because the rate BBC News Tech, the "Weather Channel" was able to depict what occurred to a group of tornado survivors. The survivors had climbed into a back-of-the-building cold storage locker when the lights went out.

The sounds and brief images caught while the camera was still rolling and the microphone was still on were beyond description. Once it was uploaded on YouTube, that particular video received millions of downloads.

Another piece of weather-related videography shows a filmmaker standing at a window, clearly enthralled as an EF-5 tornado ripped through him, forcing him to be physically pulled away from the window by a buddy. That video, which was uploaded to YouTube, is still circulating across the globe.

Google, the owner of the hot video upload property, is never short on self-promotion and recently said that video views have increased by 25% in just 8 months. They went on to add that the amount of individuals watching YouTube uploads was "equal to more than half of the world's population watching videos at the same time."

According to some analysts, YouTube could be the single most profitable element of the Google empire that has been growing for years, based on the company's performance.

Indeed, Google added a feature to YouTube last year that allows users to live-stream their videos to the platform. It's been dubbed download youtube videos online and has become extremely popular. Some speculate that the "Arab Spring," in which millions of people peacefully demonstrated and overthrew tyrants who had ruled by force for 30 or 40 years, was a result of the quick upload service demonstrating how troops reacted to unarmed men and women.

There were also footage of units that switched sides and became insurgents when they realized what they were doing.

Another service that was believed to be in the works as early as the spring has yet to materialize: a 3D service for YouTubeFree Reprint Articles.