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
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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.