Google and Video Content

November 14, 2010

Short honk: The YouTube blog reported that YouTube is sucking down a lot of video. What’s “a lot”? How does 35 hours of video a minute sound. That works out to 2,100 hours of video an hour. The rest of the math I will leave to you. You can read the news in “Great Scott! Over 35 Hours of Video Uploaded Every Minute to YouTube.” This blog is titled “Broadcasting Ourselves.” The chart below shows the intake of video at the Google.

The other side of the video business is non-YouTube content. I noted “Fox Blocks Google TV” which informed me that Fox has joined ABC, CBS, and NBC in blocking “Google TV from accessing their content online.” As crappy as network TV shows are, the top dogs at these commercial outfits seem to be unwilling to roll over for a Google mouse pad or a T shirt.

I am not a TV person. Video to me, including my own lame efforts, is serial, annoying, and mostly crap. In the race to the bottom of the intellectual barrel, I am not sure who is ahead. Google with 2,100 hours of dross flowing into YouTube each hour or the 500 channels of D minus info pumped out by the “real” television industry.

Quite an honor to win this content I surmise. Will the US economy will rebound with this type of competitive effort? Meh.

Stephen E Arnold, November 14, 2010

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Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Financial, Google, News, Rich media

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.