Not so long ago, on Valentine's Day in 2005, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim began creating a video-sharing web platform, which they named YouTube.
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Since its inception on Valentine's Day, not so long ago in 2005, until today, YouTube has not stopped growing. Day by day, it continues to break its own records in terms of viewership. Moreover, when it comes to search volume, it has found itself shoulder to shoulder with the long-standing undefeated champion, Google.
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