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Apr-15-2011 19:46printcomments

Google Will Purge Customer's Uploaded Videos

What it is for the user is a big inconvenience.

No more Google Video
No more Google Video

(SALEM, Ore.) - Google is tossing your posted video content in the trash, and those with accounts have about two weeks to nab all of their content and upload it to YouTube. Of course YouTube restricts you to fifteen minutes, so this is a good way for Google to simply purge content from the Web.

In eliminating video, Google largely breaks faith with its customers who believed the service represented a commitment. Google Video stopped taking uploads in May 2009; now they’re removing the remaining hosted content.

Google stated: "We've always maintained that the strength of Google Video is its ability to let people search videos from across the web, regardless of where those videos are hosted. And this move will enable us to focus on developing these technologies further to the benefit of searchers worldwide."

What it is for the user is a big inconvenience.

For years Google was the site where we could load long clips. They are integrated in YouTube searches and it seems that Google could very easily have allowed this small number of videos to remain. Now the users have to manually reupload each to YouTube. So much for customer service. Couldn't they have switched our content?

In fact they aren't messing around at all, and Google announces that as of April 29, 2011, videos that have been uploaded to Google Video will no longer be available for playback.

For those of us who had faith that this service wouldn't go south, we now will spend a few to several hundreds of hours in all likelihood removing and reuploading videos.

Salem-News.com had many videos loaded on their servers with the understanding they would always remain there. This is reminiscent of the antics of the company livedigital.com which unexpectedly canceled their video content after a couple of solid years of existence.

Now Google, great. Perhaps this is a lesson in not placing faith in monster companies that subject their customers and users to their whims and ensure that all business practices cater to the business, not the customer.

And let's not forget that YouTube is the one place where your video will disappear if it doesn't fit the political views of a particular religion based primarily in Tel Aviv and New York. Truth is not their interest, however YouTube seems to fit the religious fanatic Zionist mode very well.

In a slight move toward the user, Google says, "We’ve added a Download button to the video status page, so you can download any video content you want to save. If you don’t want to download your content, you don’t need to do anything."

The Download feature will be disabled after May 13, 2011.

"We encourage you to move to your content to YouTube if you haven’t done so already. YouTube offers many video hosting options including the ability to share your videos privately or in an unlisted manner. To learn more go here."

Here’s how to download your videos:

  1. Go to the Video Status page.
  2. To download a video to your computer, click the Download Video link located on the right side of each of your videos in the Actions column.

Once a video has been downloaded, “Already Downloaded” will appear next to the Download Video link.

If you have many videos on Google Video, you may need to use the paging controls located on the bottom right of the page to access them all.

Please note: This download option will be available through May 13, 2011.

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Tim King is a former U.S. Marine with twenty years of experience on the west coast as a television news producer, photojournalist, reporter and assignment editor. In addition to his role as a war correspondent, this Los Angeles native serves as Salem-News.com's Executive News Editor. Tim spent the winter of 2006/07 covering the war in Afghanistan, and he was in Iraq over the summer of 2008, reporting from the war while embedded with both the U.S. Army and the Marines. Tim holds numerous awards for reporting, photography, writing and editing, including the Oregon AP Award for Spot News Photographer of the Year (2004), first place Electronic Media Award in Spot News, Las Vegas, (1998), Oregon AP Cooperation Award (1991); and several others including the 2005 Red Cross Good Neighborhood Award for reporting. Tim has several years of experience in network affiliate news TV stations, having worked as a reporter and photographer at NBC, ABC and FOX stations in Arizona, Nevada and Oregon. You can send Tim an email at this address: newsroom@salem-news.com




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