Reverend
April 14th, 2005, 20:04 PM
Google this week launched a program that lets users worldwide store their digital videos at the Google Video service.
This new program, whose existence was disclosed by Google Co-Founder and President for Products Larry Page last week, is aimed at anyone interested in making their digital videos available to a broad audience, according to a statement from the Mountain View, California company.
"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," says Page, speaking last week a panel discussion at the National Cable Television Association (NCTA) National Show in San Francisco.
Those interested can go to upload.video.google.com (https://upload.video.google.com/) and load their digital videos to Google Video, itself a relatively new service that, when queried, returns excerpts of close-captioning transcripts of television programs, still images from broadcasts, and other programming information. Google Video doesn't return actual video clips that users can play back. Google Video is still in test, or beta, phase.
Although Google is accepting videos, it is not making them searchable yet. The plan is to eventually let users search, play back, and purchase videos stored in Google Video. Owners will have the option of giving their videos away for free or charging for them.
Full story: PC World (http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,120434,00.asp)
This new program, whose existence was disclosed by Google Co-Founder and President for Products Larry Page last week, is aimed at anyone interested in making their digital videos available to a broad audience, according to a statement from the Mountain View, California company.
"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," says Page, speaking last week a panel discussion at the National Cable Television Association (NCTA) National Show in San Francisco.
Those interested can go to upload.video.google.com (https://upload.video.google.com/) and load their digital videos to Google Video, itself a relatively new service that, when queried, returns excerpts of close-captioning transcripts of television programs, still images from broadcasts, and other programming information. Google Video doesn't return actual video clips that users can play back. Google Video is still in test, or beta, phase.
Although Google is accepting videos, it is not making them searchable yet. The plan is to eventually let users search, play back, and purchase videos stored in Google Video. Owners will have the option of giving their videos away for free or charging for them.
Full story: PC World (http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,120434,00.asp)