Google Video: Good Riddance

Google Telecasting has been circling the drain for agency overly long. Redemptive thing Google is finally pulling the hoopla.

On April 29, Google Video — the service, not the hunting engine of the same name — will shut down, and all existing videos will make up deleted. A parvenue download button allows users to grab their files, and Google is encouraging users to put their videos on YouTube instead.

Google Video's in store has been in doubt since 2006, when Google nonheritable YouTube. In 2009, Google Video stopped accepting new uploads, and service has been in a vegetative state ever since.

Michael Cohen, Google Video's product handler, wrote in 2009 that Google was halting uploads to cente video search, which was always the service's greatest strength. But even after after uploads froze on the Google Video service, they continued to poison Google video search.

If you've ever tried to lookup for video on Google and lift with results from video.Google.com, you'll know what I'm talk all but. The interface lacks the time and attention bestowed upon YouTube. In that respect are no options for streaming quality, captions, likes or dislikes, view counts, playlists, or "video responses." When searching for videos, stumbling upon a Google Video instead of a lead from YouTube is always a take down. Google Videos have become harder to find over time, merely they still show ahead in seek results on affair.

On April 29, those videos will finally melt, and Google video search can finally act on connected, clear by its past. Information technology's about clip.

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