by Jay Hathaway on May 25, 2008 at 03:00 PM

Google is known for its quick reactions to copyright claims, taking down videos from YouTube and Google video at the request of original copyright holders -- especially big players like TV networks. Recently, Paulo Ordoveza found one of his videos was the victim of one of these claims, and it was taken down from Google Video. The strange thing is that he had recorded his piece -- a time-lapse of ...
by Danny Mendez on April 1, 2008 at 09:00 AM

Omnisio is a free web-based video editor that lets you snip and paste videos from YouTube, Google Video, and blip.tv, with support for more sites coming soon. The site is similar to online photo-editing sites like FotoFlexer, but applies the same idea to video. You don't need any desktop software other than a sturdy online browser with Flash support. The three sites still provide for a very ...
by Emily Price on January 28, 2008 at 12:00 PM

If you want to get your video seen, really seen, then chances are you upload it to a couple of different video sharing sites. But who has the time to do that? We wrote about TubeMogul in July, a site that allows you to upload your video to a bunch of sites at once, and now we've come across Hey!Spread another site that will do all your dirty work for you. Hey!Spread is from the same company that ...
by Nik Fletcher on August 21, 2007 at 10:40 AM

Google recently caused something of a commotion with their announcement that Google Video would be shutting down, and that videos would no longer be playable. In return, Google was offering Google Checkout coupons, which many people were (quite understandably) displeased with. Thankfully, Google appears to have listened to peoples concerns, and has had a change of heart with their policy. ...
by Brad Linder on August 11, 2007 at 05:34 PM

It looks like Google Video's transition from a video hosting service to a video search engine is pretty much complete. Yesterday Google sent out an e-mail to the two or three customers who had actually paid to download premium videos from Google Video. In a nutshell, the messages said that Google would no longer be offering paid video downloads. Oh yeah, and if you've already bought movies from ...
by Brad Linder on June 14, 2007 at 06:00 PM

So what do you do if you're a giant search company that happens to own two separate and kind of competing video sharing services? If you guessed this isn't really a hypothetical question you're smarter than you look. So Google goes and buys YouTube for a ridiculous amount of money, and then has to figure out what to with the much less popular Google Video. Today, we have our answer: turn it into ...
by Brad Linder on January 4, 2007 at 01:30 PM

Sure, there are plenty of ways to grab a video from YouTube, save it as an flv file, and convert it the file format of your choice. But Zunemytube's got to be the simplest method I've seen so far. All you have to do is install the plugin for Internet Explorer and a little Zune icon will pop up in your toolbar. Then you surf YouTube, Google Video or MSN Soapbox and find videos you want to save. ...
by Jordan Running on November 27, 2006 at 05:30 PM

YouTube is the de facto standard for video sharing on the web, but there are a lot of other options out there. But other features aside, which one offers the best video quality? While Life Goggles doesn't actually answer that question for you, it does gives you side-by-side comparisons of eight major video sharing sites' embedded players so you can judge for yourself. I've been squinting at them ...
by Chris Gilmer on November 13, 2006 at 03:00 PM

Are you interested in Google Video stats? Come on, they could be interesting sometimes right? Google Video now gives us a little more insight into videos. Next to the "All time views" text for a video, there is now an arrow that can be clicked on that will display:
The number of views
Its overall rank
The number of views from yesterday
Yesterday's rank
How many of yesterday's views ...
by David Chartier on October 12, 2006 at 03:43 PM

Ah when the river of Google flows, it is plentiful. Not even sitting down for a breather, the big G has announced a deal with Sony BMG and Warner Music Group (yea, they shook hands with YouTube last week too) to bring "thousands" of free music videos to GooTube Google Video, thanks to their standard ad-supported model. They have plenty of videos linked front and center under their search box from ...
by Chris Gilmer on September 22, 2006 at 09:30 AM

Videos are all the craze right now, there are many companies serving up crazy silly videos of everything from kittens climbing walls, to videos of Weird Al dancing. It's hard to keep up on the hottest of the hot videos out there. Now you can, with the Viral Video Chart. It tracks the most talked about videos on YouTube, MySpace, and Google Video, serving them up in one convenient location. ...
by Chris Gilmer on September 12, 2006 at 02:30 PM

In this issue of Googleholic we cover:
7 Days in September
Google's new MD in UK
Google moving towards TV advertising
GooglePlex 2
Interesting Items for You
Continue reading Friday's Googleholic... ...
by Chris Gilmer on September 8, 2006 at 12:35 PM

In this issue of Googleholic we cover:
Gmail Keyboard Shortcuts
Google Video in Japan
Government to be trained on SEO
Pictures of Google's China Office
Google is targeting the $10 Billion local ad business
Continue reading Friday's Googleholic... ...
by Jordan Running on August 17, 2006 at 05:00 PM

Light Reading, a telecom magazine I'll admit to never having heard of before, is running a very thorough comparison of the web's many, many video sharing sites. If you're in a hurry you might want to skip to this table, which ranks 44 sites according to ease of use, upload and storage limitations, and "other stuff" including format flexibility, editing, distribution, and privacy options, but the ...
by Chris Gilmer on August 11, 2006 at 02:20 PM

Google has not only beefed up their movie showtimes search feature, but they have also included the ability to view movie trailers directly from the search query. When a search is performed for a movie and location in Google, we would usually only see a few listings for the theatres where it is playing, and the next available show times. Now when we search, we get a nice little piece of text that ...