Google has just announced that it is shutting down Google Video. Personally, I think this should have been done a long time ago. Google owns Youtube and Youtube is the largest video service on the web. This has been a long time coming since Google Video stopped accepting uploads in May 2009. Now users are being told that they should save their video content or move it to Youtube. While this will be centralizing videos on the web to be mainly held on one site, it is not decreasing competition considering that Google owns youtube. Perhaps this is part of one of Google's plans. I think Youtube will be receiving some steep investments soon. We already are faced with commercials when we want to watch a video. Maybe we'll see another way for youtube to make money emerge.
On a different note, what is your opinion of online video sites where anyone can post? Are they safe?
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