LISNews: Librarian News

A year ago, co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen were in between jobs, a pair of twentysomething geeks running up big credit card debts as they tooled around a garage trying to develop an easy way for people to share homemade videos on the Web.

In February, YouTube's 9 million U.S. visitors viewed 176 million pages, compared with 38 million pages at Microsoft Corp.'s MSN Video and 76 million at Google Video. (Last month, The Associated Press and Microsoft launched an advertising-supported online video news network, using Microsoft's technology.)