What I a great story. This is from 2019 and it somehow fly under my radar. I was always under the impression killing IE6 was a strategic decision from Google especially it came after they introduce Chrome where they previously said they were 100% behind Firefox. And we have email evidence that is not the case as they had always intend to have their own browser.
It is also Interesting how Youtube seems to have resisted integration into Google infrastructure and tools for as long as possible. Vitess was created in 2010 to solve their mySQL scaling issues. And I believe it wasn't until late 2019 they moved it to some whatever Google standardise.
YouTube has resisted it specifically because the spectacular failure of Google Videos.
But you can totally see Google's hands in their business decisions such as shoving GPM into YouTube Music and switching their entire ad stack to be Google exclusive (an obvious move).
It is also Interesting how Youtube seems to have resisted integration into Google infrastructure and tools for as long as possible. Vitess was created in 2010 to solve their mySQL scaling issues. And I believe it wasn't until late 2019 they moved it to some whatever Google standardise.