Tech: Summary: The life, quick demise and slow death of Google Video
- 2005 Google started their own video-sharing service called Google Video, back when the market was wide open.
- 2006 The service, an also-ran in the wake of YouTube, became straight-up irrelevant after Google bought the rival service.
- 2009 Google finally closed off the service to new uploads, but allowed users to keep their old uploads online.
- 2011 Now, years after everyone stopped using the service, Google’s removing old uploads. Well, at least there’s YouTube. source