Bah. They've gone and stuck the word "New!" next to it even though YouTube isn't new at all; it's just new to that page!
Come on Google, give us something really NEW to play with! |
Looks like they've still got to make it work with Google Accounts (assuming they are going to put it under that umbrella of services). Currently all it does is link to youtube. |
Note the difference :
Google Video : SEARCH for videos
YouTube : UPLOAD & WATCH videos
BTW, on the French version (http://www.google.com/intl/fr/options/), Google Video is still not there and Google Groups is "new" ;-) |
Well, not a big diff.
The previous text for Video was: "Search TV programs and videos", which seemed kind of outdated/partially inaccurate. |
Will it make sense for Google to acquire iFilm too, and potentially other large movie websites? Then they can integrate these into Google Video search like they're doing with YouTube now, and Google Video will slowly start to become a meaningful, almost-web-wide video search engine. (The nice thing, they can exclude competitor's from indexing their video pages via robots.txt and *still* access the data.) |
Philipp – why don't they just index without buying? Is that not technically feasible? Why should video be different than web pages (other than the difference in form)? |
Good question, I wish I knew why they don't have a real web-wide video search engine! Certainly it's easier to index the data when you own it (and you can display your own ads on the content, too), but web-wide video indexing is not impossible, as Yahoo's video search engine shows. |
[Moved from "YouTube listed as a Google product" – Tony]
http://www.google.fr/intl/en/options/
Just have a look |
[Moved from "YouTube listed as a Google product" – Tony]
And Labs redirects for me to the Google homepage |
