Didn't see this coming but in retrospect it makes perfect sense. I'm wondering how Kaggle will change its competitions, though, as the most popular ones are sponsored by some of Google's direct competitors.
Exactly my thoughts too. I remember Netflix had a huge one a while ago. If it directly conflicts with Google Youtube's interests, arguably it could mean Google will be able to dictate competitions and have a 500K army of data scientists at their disposal.
