Last week, Google announced that it was shutting down it's video service, Google Video. What was once a YouTube competitor soon turned into YT's little brother that many had forgotten. After many years of overlapping features and near-useless existence, Google has finally decided to shut down Google Video. Thankfully, the big G has made it much simpler to migrate to YouTube if you've been an avid user of their old, worn out service.Although Google is shutting down all playback on April 29th, users will still be able to access their uploaded videos for a while. But, this won't be for long; they've added a feature that lets you upload your Google Video video to your connected YouTube account. If you decide that you won't those videos off the internet for good, you can also download the videos.
This shut-down of Google Video is a smart move by the video team. It was quite clear this was going to happen after Larry Page re-organized the VP roles and made the YouTube CEO, Salar Kamangar, the SVP of YouTube & Video. It was redundant site that needed some serious cleaning up, and I'm glad it was done. Let's hope that YouTube's focus on video search continues to grow stronger as it has in the past.
Source: YouTube Blog
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