You seem to have stumbled onto youtube, here's some facts. RU-vid is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees-Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim-in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; RU-vid now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries.