Google announces it is shutting down Google Video

[Lynch]

The news was announced this weekend (from what I can tell). Frankly, I'm a bit surprised that it has lasted as long as it has, considering that Google owns Youtube and has for a few yrs now.


Anyway, if you are interested, check the news source link here.

 

[LivingDead]

I'm not going to lie... I didn't even know there was a google video. But Google video is completely separate from Youtube, right?

 

[Lynch]

Yep

Google Videos

 

[Nololob]

^^ Sort of.
You can't watch videos uploaded on Google, but in Google you can search videos uploaded on YouTube.

 

[Prime]

Not surprising. I mean i've used it once or twice, but I prefer Youtube, even with the ads.

 

[aeroplane]

It probably isn't a huge loss in the grand scheme of things, well minus the people who handled that end of their (Google's) business exclusively who might be out of a job, but I do recall a handful of videos that were exclusive to Google video that had never made it onto YouTube.

Mostly tv and movie clips, but still it served as evidence that YouTube doesn't contain every video a user could ever want (there is a lot of stuff I've tried to find on YouTube that I've had no success locating either because it has never been uploaded or if it has the Title and/or Description are so poorly composed that it is impossible to locate via a traditional search and you can only locate it on accident).

Now if Google defies all odds and somehow finds a way to forever "shut down" the rambling, unfocused, directionless "run on sentence" (as seen ^^^^^^^), I'm gonna be pissed.

 

[LG]

Not a big fan of either but I do use YT and never bothered with Google's in house site.

To quote a Beagle I know...:shrug: