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Within Vinony's link graph, Google Videos is referenced by 793 other articles, and connects out to list of mergers and acquisitions by Google, Google Search and macOS.
Vinony files it under Defunct American websites, Discontinued Google services and Former video hosting services.
Its subject is documented across 36 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Type of site
- Video hosting service , video search engine
- Available in
- Multilingual
- Owner
- Url
- video .google .com
- Commercial
- Yes
- Registration
- Optional
- Launched
- January 25, 2005 ; 21 years ago ( 2005-01-25 )
- Current status
- Discontinued after August 20, 2012
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- software
- Subclass of
- Owned by
- Creator
- Developer
- Official website
- video.google.com
- Image
- Screenshot of Google Video Search filtering by Closed-Captioned Videos.png
- Has use
- media player software
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- inception
- 2005-01-25
- end time
- 2012-08-20
- language of work or name
- English language
- Commons category
- Google Videos
- operating system
- iOS
- copyright license
- freeware
- search formatter URL
- www.google.com/search?q=$1&tbm=vid
- different from
- Google Vids
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2012-00-00
- merged into
- YouTube
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Encyclopedic overview
Google Video was a free video hosting service, operated by Google from 2005 to 2012.
It was launched on January 25, 2005, and initially focused on searching TV program transcripts. It soon evolved to allow hosting video clips on Google servers and embedding onto other websites, akin to YouTube.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Google Videos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.