Items tagged with Google Video
Did Google just eat one of its own? With Google's takeover of YouTube, it's pretty clear that there's no real need for multiple video services under one roof. YouTube has become a dominant force in the industry, and even Google Video isn't a household name in the way that YouTube is. This week, Google decided to shudder Google Video, and an e-mail notification was sent to users to inform them of such. The note had some rough news: download their uploaded videos by May 13th, or else live with never, ever seeing them again. After April 29th, Google Video content will no longer be viewable, but the download feature will remain available for a few weeks in order to give users the ability to retrieve...
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Google has a stronghold in today’s tech world, but that’s not to say every project it attempts reaches great success. So, like many other companies these days, Google is feeling the need to cut back. Recently, the company announced plans to end support for some of its less popular Web-based applications. Some of these applications include Google Catalog Search, Google Video, and Jaiku. Vic Gundotra, Vice President of Engineering, said Jaiku will be ported over to Google App Engine. After the migration, Google will release the new open source Jaiku Engine project on Google Code under the Apache License and will no longer actively develop the codebase. As a result, this service will live on through...
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Google has partnered with quite a few other nations to provide more content through their Google Video service. France, the UK, and Canada are just a few of the nations which Google will be focusing on. "Google hopes that the eight national editions will grow to reflect the likes of the countries each site serves - visitors can rate videos to help sort which ones are the most popular. Included in the list of partners are ITN, Wimbledon video rights holder IMG Media, the Cousteau Society, Talkback Thames, Buena Vista International, FC Barcelona and France's National Audiovisual Archive." Google still faces some extremely strong competition from competitor YouTube.com though....
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Be it software, service, or just about anything else, there's almost always some teething problems. Google's Video Store is certainly no exception. As Ars Technica explains, there are some serious issues Google needs to deal with, and some areas Google is improving on. "The Google Video Store may have launched more than two weeks ago, but it's still clearly not ready for primetime. The company and its partners have taken notice of the lackluster launch and concomitant panning of the service in the press, and they've taken some steps recently to improve things. How does the situation stand now? Read on for my look at some of the initial problems...
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