Google Video was created in January 2005 as an effort by Google to take control of Internet searches for audiovisual content. The service was first called Google Video Search and it was created to look for information within television programs. In the beginning, it only indexed material from eight television networks in the United States. In order to view or upload videos, it was necessary to download an application to your computer. The aim was to create an online television channel. It was released in permanent beta status, as is usual with all new Google services. In Google's words, the company justified its new creation with the following statement: “Our mission is to organize the world's information, and that includes video.” By now you all know that Google bought YouTube in October 2006 for 1.65 billion dollars. But Google Video was created even before YouTube, although the aims of the two were completely different. YouTube focused on users, collecting their content at no charge and exclusively through the use of its browser, something which Google Video did not do, and which was surely the cause of its failure. Google Video used an application called Google Video Viewer as its desktop application. The development of ...