I have always looked up to Google Video; to me, their videos always set a higher standard. Where else could you go to get 20-30 minute video clips of Scientists and Professors speaking to their class about advancements in technology? Still Google, but now you must sift through the massive database of YouTube drivel to obtain anything useful. 

As sure as it was a house divided amongst itself, Google finds it necessary to integrate YouTube’s collection within their own Google branded video service. Like many other video crawling sites who combine content from all the major services as YouTube, AOL Video, and Myspace Video; Google wants to play the part, and become the leader in online video searching.

“Over time, Google Video will become even more comprehensive as it evolves into a service where you can search for the world’s online video content, irrespective of where it may be hosted,” said Salar Kamangar, Google’s vice president of product management.

In the future, we will not be surprised to see video captured from the deepest corners of the Internet; all brought to you by Google, and only Google.

Robert X. Cringely, host and writer of the hit PBS-TV miniseries Electric Money, believes Google is relying on Web based Video in an effort to become the Internet; saying,  ”It is becoming very obvious what will happen over the next two to three years. More and more of us will be downloading movies and television shows over the net and with that our usage patterns will change.”

Robert’s scary, yet clever piece, When Being a Verb is Not Enough, claims that Google controls more network fiber than any other organization, and believes that it’s part of Google’s big plan to become the Internet. More video requires more bandwidth; more bandwidth requires Google. So why not promote online video even more?

Robert claims, ”We won’t know if we’re accessing the Internet or Google and for all practical purposes it won’t matter. Google will become our phone company, our cable company, our stereo system and our digital video recorder. Soon we won’t be able to live without Google”

As TECH.BLORGE.com’s own Gareth Powell intelligently states, “The end game is to control the content for, indeed, content is king.”

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Entry was posted on Friday, January 26th, 2007 at 7:18 am under Google, Opinion, Web2.0, YouTube.

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