It's that blissful morning when YouTube wakes up, checks out who's lying next to it in bed, and goes "Yessssss!" Let's clean the sheets:

• Google promised they'd keep YouTube as YouTube, but that won't stop the neologists. Right now on Google, GoogTube beats GooTube 243k to 39k. [Google Fight]
• Blogger Susan Mernit notes that Google could have bought the New York Times for much less than YouTube. Sure, but that'd get it in the messy content business, and Google's famous for eschewing that. This isn't some sign of a paradigm shift, just business as usual. [Susan Mernit]
• GigaOM blogger Liz Gannes puts Google on the couch and decides that the YouTube buyout was its way of getting over meaningless partnerships like the Quicken and eBay deals. [GigaOM]
• The deal was made at Denny's, says the New York Times. Okay, that really is tacky — everyone knows you're supposed to make deals over $40 pancakes at Buck's of Woodside. [NY Times]