The second big name in Google's summer cleaning announcement, besides iGoogle, is Google Video. The site has been on life support for years, Google acquired YouTube six years ago after all. People have been unable to upload videos since 2009, but the site stayed up.
Not for long though, remaining videos on August 20 will be migrated to YouTube and Google Video closed down for good.
Users have had ample time to either download their videos or migrate them to YouTube. They had the option of deleting them too.
"Later this summer, all remaining hosted video on Google Video will be moved to YouTube. Google Video stopped taking uploads in May 2009 and now we’re moving the remaining hosted content to YouTube as private videos," Google said on its YouTube blog.
Users that still have videos on the Google site have until August 20 to do something about it. However, any video that is still on the site at that date will be copied over to YouTube automatically. The videos will be set to private, but users will be able to find them in their YouTube dashboard.
Given that Google Accounts are universal, users don't have to set up a YouTube profile or to ever have used the site to have the videos moved over.
The move is rather considerate of Google, it ensures that no video is lost even if the uploaders have forgotten about them or simply aren't interested anymore.
"As we said nearly three years ago, the Google Video team is now focused on tackling the challenge of video search. We want to thank the millions of people around the world who have taken the time to create and share videos on Google Video, and we hope that you will continue to share your videos on YouTube," Google said.
At this point, YouTube is a complete replacement for Google Video, the length limit on videos that was the major issue has been lifted long ago.
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