Why read when we've got YouTube?

No, this isn't the place to get into an examination of secondary orality and the decline of print as a source of information and a way of knowing, but perhaps the basic idea of "reading" on the web, rather than viewing videos, or looking at images, is mistaken to begin with. On a page from I think 2013 Musroom Networks inform us that YouTube had become the second largest search engine on the web, adding:

YouTube processes more than 3 billion searches a month. 100 hours of video are uploaded every minute. It's bigger than Bing, Yahoo!, Ask and AOL combined!

And I suppose that there's no reason to be surprised that the page is an infographic.

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