Google Video Viewer launches

Today Google launched (via Boing Boing) the Google Video Viewer, which allows you to view videos in its video search. The company I work for participated in Google’s video upload program, hoping that would help our clients. Based on the relatively small number of videos in the database, I’m sure it will. However, I have to say that once again Google has disappointed by creating a Windows-only product. This is especially confusing considering that the Google Video Viewer is based on VLC, which runs on just about every operating system on the planet.

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  1. By Matthew Gifford - Google Zeitgeist ‘05 on September 17, 2005 at 11:13 am

    [...] Between their unwillingness to participate in the developer community, their lack of cross-platform apps (such as Talk and Video Viewer), and poorly-executed apps, I’m thinking that Google is turning into another Microsoft. So today I deleted my Google keymark. It’s going to take a while to get used to typing “y” to search in Firefox. 9/17/2005 11:12 AM | Tags: Google | RSS | Trackback [...]

  2. By Matthew Gifford - Google Video improvements on September 27, 2005 at 9:17 pm

    [...] On June 28th, I wrote the following about Google Video. [...]

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