Comments on: Users to Google Video: Please Don’t Delete Our Clips

By: Juxachim

Juxachim — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:35:46 +0000

Sorry about the typos.

By: Juxachim

Juxachim — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:34:23 +0000

Indeed! Google video is hosting more than “clips”. That is why it’s important. Clips of cats and penguins can use youtube but GV hosts tons of long lectures, hard to find documentaries and other archive-worthy material. To simply remove all that is ruthless and totally impropriate for Google. Users trusted Google with their material and Google promised them access. Removing google videos will also create dead links and dead embeds on other sites that catalog and link to videos there. Universities, interest groups, documentary sites. The list is long. Google video has not been dead at all since 2009 as many claim. It is a vital source of information not found elsewhere. It must be preserved in some form. That is the only right thing to do. Period.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:54:56 +0000

When they stopped allowing uploads to Google Video in 2009 they assured us of continued access to the videos that were there. Google is setting a bad precedent. Now one can only anticipate that after the next earnings report that doesn’t meet Wall Street expectations, they will shut down Google blogs without ads, and then blogs without enough traffic, or, of course, charge for blogs and other services. Google as we knew it, is dead.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:09:38 +0000

This this is more likely to start happening, as unsavvy users think this kind of information just gets stored in a magic cloud and companies go out of business.