At a cable television conference on Monday, Google co-founder Larry Page indicated the mildly maligned Google Video is going to begin solicitation of personal videos from people who want to contribute.
WebProWorld Apparently, this is being done to personalize Google's video search, while beefing up their Google Video index, giving users more reasons to query the service. The idea was stated by Page, who said, "In the next few days, we're actually going to start taking video submissions from people, and we're not quite sure what we're going to get, but we decided we'd try this experiment." Because of this statement, submission service will do for vlogging as Google's purchase of Blogger.com did for normal, text-style blogging. Are they jumping the gun? Only time will tell. However, because of Google Video's apparent impotence when compared to SingingFish, perhaps Google is doing this merely to improve their product and not to revolutionize the blogging medium again. Currently, Google Video only searches for the closed caption text of video provided by their WebmasterWorld forums, Hester provides a different point of view by saying: Video is naturally one of many future directions for the web. On the BBC site (sorry for the duplicate entry, there were no posts when I tried to start a new one) there's a link about how the tsunami disaster started up a sudden need for videos. When bandwidth is irrelevant and storage capacities almost infinite, won't we all want to add videos to our sites? Especially if everyone else has them. Google are just getting in there early. This point is furthered on the same forum by Michael Heraghty, who says: A fascinating development. This takes us closer to the kind of media technologies that, twenty years ago, only existed in science fiction imaginings. That's not to say that "v-logging" is a good, or bad, development. Media is not good or bad, only its uses and content can be judged that way. But I see this opening doors to all sorts of possibilities (people leaving video messages rather than voice messages; etc.). As for why Google chose to experiment with video blogs, rather than video clips -- I wonder if it's to get around copyright issues? Another point of view is offered by Loren of Murdok. Visit Murdok for theSuggest a Correction
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