Google closed the YouTube deal on November 13, 2006. Today, March 13, Viacom sued Google for $1 billion. Like others, I think this is just a negotiating tactic. It will be interesting to see how far it goes.

Here are some Google actions of the past that I pulled from Infoword:

Google’s announcement of its add-on offering came one day before the anniversary of the company’s IPO initial public offering last year. Google being Google, the precise number of shares in the add-on offering is a geek joke: The company filed to sell 14,159,265 shares, a figure yanked from the first eight numbers after the decimal point of the mathematical constant pi. In Google’s initial IPO filing last year, it capped its maximum offering price at $2,718,281,828 — a multiple of the irrational, transcendental constant e.

Is Viacom trying to be clever with the four month thing?

UPDATE: Listening to “All Things Considered” on NPR this evening on the drive back from Reynolds Plantation I learned that today is Pi Day. They are trying to be clever.