Jul 04

Google Video content moving to YouTube

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A few years ago, Google launched its own online video sharing service to compete with YouTube – Google Video. Well we all know how that turned out – Google decided to take over YouTube instead. It’s been a long time since we’ve heard anything about Google Video and the site stopped taking video uploads since May 2009. Well, for those of you wondering about the content stored on the site, it looks like it will be given a new breath of life.

According to an announcement on the official YouTube blog, all the videos on Google Video will be transferred over to YouTube this summer. Videos will be moved over as private content with video owners getting the option to make them public. So for those of you who are worried about having your private videos on YouTube, nobody’s going to see them unless you say so. How many of still have content up on Google Video?

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: YouTube for Android gets redesigned with new UI, quick access to channels, and video preloading, YouTube for PS Vita now available,

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Jul 03

Google retiring iGoogle, Google Mini, others for ‘spring cleaning’

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Google retiring iGoogle, Symbian Search app, Google Mini, others for 'spring cleaning'

To everything (Turn, Turn, Turn). There is a season (Turn, Turn, Turn). Sometimes those seasons can get a bit convoluted, however — or such is the premise of Google’s “Spring cleaning in summer” post, outlining the end of a handful of tech offerings. Because heck, even a company as big as Google has to pick its battles. On the chopping block this time out are the Google Mini enterprise search system, the Google Talk Chatback widget, Google Video, iGoogle and the Symbian search app. Of course, the company won’t be leaving people hanging entirely. Google’s pushing users toward existing properties like the Meebo bar for Talk Chatback and YouTube for Google Video (which already stopped taking uploads a while back), the latter of which will be fully integrated into the more popular video offering come August. More info on what all this means in the source link below.

Google retiring iGoogle, Google Mini, others for ‘spring cleaning’ originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 03 Jul 2012 16:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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