Jan 25th, 2007
Google Video and YouTube
Today Google announced what their plans were for Google video and YouTube (For anyone who doesn’t know yet, Google acquired YouTube….It was kind of a big thing). They will keep YouTube running as a separate entity and Google Video will soon turn into a very large video search engine - similar to Google’s normal search engine but with video. That means that all of YouTube’s videos will be searchable in Google Video starting today. And plans are that more video’s from many other sites will also be listed in the search index of Google Video.
I think this is an ingenious move by Google. By doing this, they keep the strengths of YouTube and keep the strengths of Google too. From now on, I’ll always go to Google Video to search for videos all over the web.