Google Video Launched

Google announced Google Video Marketplace on 7 January

Google said this is the " first open video marketplace

enabling consumers to buy and rent a wide range of

video content"

 

Google will offer (commercial free) popular shows like CSI,

NCIS, Survivor, NBA games online, 24Hrs...etc.

They also will offer optimized vedio format to iPod and PSP users.

 

https://www.engadget.com/

I'll be damned if I knew what Google is up to with all this. Is this really the same company that started out only a couple of years ago as a Search Engine? What's their plan exactly, over-throwing Microsoft?I have nothing against Google. I adore it, really, and I think it's made a tremendous difference in the digital world, both online and off. And normally, I'd wish it the best of luck in its endeavors. But unfortunately, I've grown so skeptical of those All-Encompassing companies and their market-monopolizing strategies that I've come to automatically question any company that shows the slightest intention of becoming one. Perhaps I've reading too much George Orwell, but isn't Google the closest thing to The Big Brother?!Anyway, great information, jedipi. Thanks.

I'll be damned if I knew what Google is up to with all this.  Is this really the same company that started out only a couple of years ago as a Search Engine?  What's their plan exactly, over-throwing Microsoft?

 

I have nothing against Google.  I adore it, really, and I think it's made a tremendous difference in the digital world, both online and off.  And normally, I'd wish it the best of luck in its endeavors.  But unfortunately, I've grown so skeptical of those All-Encompassing companies and their market-monopolizing strategies that I've come to automatically question any company that shows the slightest intention of becoming one.  Perhaps I've reading too much George Orwell, but isn't Google the closest thing to The Big Brother?!

 

Anyway, great information, jedipi.  Thanks.

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Google like every organization has grown. It's also grown very profitable - and large chunks of profit mean more money to play around with. Now, as soon as Google went public, it resulted in a requirement to grow further, grow more profitable so that the investing public may reap the benefits. The only way to do that is to either invent completely new technologies, or to take over areas that have always exhisted. That's the way the market economy works. Now, just as long as Google remains essentially free to the basic user, I do believe that people will keep using the services; as soon as they move over to paid services, peolpe'll move to whatever else there is - and make that 'whatever else the next big thing'.

 

Hummmm... when we talk big brother - we need to look at our governments, our religions etc... anything designed to manage humans.

Heh, I just browsed through video.google.com and it was quite fun, I think a lot of addition will be made, it is funny what you can find on the search keywords, like the old good "prono" which a lot of people already tried in my opinion. Personally I like the video search

Hehe, google really has everything.Like:GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google Gmail account, allowing you to use Gmail as a storage medium. GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google Gmail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your Gmail account directly from inside Windows Explorer. GMail Drive literally adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder, where you can create new folders, copy and drag'n'drop files to.

Google's really making a name for theirselves. Before google i use to use astavista.com to search the web. Lately, out of habit I typed it in and *POW* not there anymore. Just craziness I tell you. I think yahoo bought into astavista or owned it or something, but google's a major competitor out there now. Any company that's any company has a place in the google pages. Gmail is great, and that extension, although it's not from google, is nice to have an emulated drive. Now this. This sounds pretty nifty. Thanks for the news, I had no idea. I'll check into it.

Altavista or astavista? One was for searching the net owned by DEC/Compaq/now HP, the other was for searching for less than reputable things on the internet. I still use the babel fish service through Altavista.com some to translate words, no not entire webpages. German is my second language and there are time I'm typing and can't think of a word. Babel fish is usually good to look up a word or two, especially if you remember it once you see it. Same if I run across a word I can't remember or have never seen before. Handy to translate that word usually. Google has the goal to basically "organize all the knowldege in the world". Someone else tried that once: it was called the Library of Alexanderia. Then when someone finally burned it to the ground, there was this nice period called "the dark ages". Google seeing information to be organized is starting to worry me a bit. It is bad enough that if you know someone's SSN you can get their credit reports, hell I even saw today on the news where you can get someone's cell phone records online for like $50. You can tell who they called, for how long, and even where they called from. That gets to be a little too much information for my taste. The sad part is google has the "do no evil" philosophy, but what they are doing (taking it that the see data and information as something to just be collected and organized) could be one of the most dangerous things they could do. And it's not Google that I'm worried about so much as people being able to use google to their own means and ends that concerns me.

Thanks so much for that post jedipi. It's really amazing how Google manages to create so many of these new modules for their site. But what exactly is this Google Video? Is it like a TV show or is it like a recording studio where you can preview, make or watch videos?

I'll be damned if I knew what Google is up to with all this. Is this really the same company that started out only a couple of years ago as a Search Engine? What's their plan exactly, over-throwing Microsoft?

That's a good question Khymnon. I don't know either why they are doing it but if they are trying to overthrow Microsoft then they'll have their work cut out for them because Microsoft makes so many products that are sold worldwide.
Maybe they are just trying to promote their Search Engine to the rest of the world. Other search engines such as Yahoo and Dogpile are really major but they are still competition to Google. These modules will help Google become more popular.