On its blog, Google unveiled the future plans for the coexistence of Google Video and YouTube. It includes the addition of premium content on YouTube, and the conversion of Google Video into more of a search engine and less of a video host.
The general consensus, at least from where I looked, was positive. The YouTube brand would go untouched for the most part, and Google Video will now search all video content across the entire interwebnodes for whatever you want. This sounds like a good idea on face... but it got me thinking--is this really a semi-covert scheme by Google to crush the competition?
See, I don't know about on the national or global scale, but among my friends, YouTube has started to get knocked down a bit by competition from other video sites, and namely DailyMotion. The main appeal of DailyMotion is that one can often find entire episodes of broadcast television shows on its servers. Its relative obscurity (up until now) has served it brilliantly--but now that Google plans to operate Google Video as a clearinghouse for the entire web, that anonymity may be compromised.
Instead of asking what is surely some unpaid intern to scour the web for pirated content, NBC/ABC/CBS can just have that gofer hop onto Google Video and see that someone has been uploading Heroes since its inception. These sites are already being weakened by content providers like NBC opening their minds to the idea making their programs available online (ABC has been doing since at least the last spring, and NBC started to join the pack a few weeks ago), but this may be the final blow.
20.1.07
Been A LONG Time
But we can get back there, can't we? CAN'T WE?
In the preceeding six months a lot has changed. Detail is unimportant, just know that The Office is greatmazing, and I can't resist these new blogger features. Sure, you guy stripped my site of so much, but whatevs... Look at that clean front page! There's even AJAX on here!
So, I can make no promises, but I'll at least have some free time for the next week. After that, not so much, but I'll try.
-The Management
In the preceeding six months a lot has changed. Detail is unimportant, just know that The Office is greatmazing, and I can't resist these new blogger features. Sure, you guy stripped my site of so much, but whatevs... Look at that clean front page! There's even AJAX on here!
So, I can make no promises, but I'll at least have some free time for the next week. After that, not so much, but I'll try.
-The Management
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