Why Google Video Sucks
I uploaded two short clips to Google Video on February 25, 2006. Guess what, Google, it’s April 8th now and they’re still not live. I keep getting a “Video is verified; stay tuned – it will be live shortly” message when I log in:
What’s wrong with this picture? I upload two less than 10s video clips to Google Video a month and a half ago, and they’ve yet to be released in a form where I can use it. Now, if I used major competitor YouTube, I’d have these videos live and published on my blog in the same few minutes. I’ve emailed Google Video, but unless the time-to-live becomes reasonable, bloggers and home users are not going to jump on the bandwagon.
While major TV studios and movie companies may be useful assets, the real force behind a video sharing system is the viral nature of user-uploaded content. Without efficient publication of that content, Google Video is a crippled Web 2.0 application.
Update
Thanks for your email. We understand that your videos have been verified, but has not gone “live.” We looked into your account and found that the videos listed below do not meet our minimum length requirement of 10 seconds:
MOV01787.MPG length = 3.92 seconds
MOV01674.MPG length = 2.48 seconds
Please make sure the videos you upload meet our minimum technical requirements. To review our technical requirements, please visit: video.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=26579&topic=1488.
If you have additional Google Video questions, please feel free to visit our Help Center at video.google.com/support. We hope you’ll visit Google Video in the future to see our additions and improvements.
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Youtube sucks and Google video sucks even worse. Why are they always doing scheduled maintenance on youtube? Nothing is ever better after these maintenance sessions. Videos still skip and pause when they’re fully downloaded. Seeing those stupid error messages is just as common as seeing one of those piss poor videos. Google is just plain **** and F*ck those @ssholes for selling out. I hope they get a coke habit and end up dead in a gutter.
U ****** youtube is owned by google!
ff u suck
Well actually we believe that not just Google Video sucks, but that the whole Google Sucks. To find out why we think so – goto googlesux.com
Ask.com is WAY better than google heres my reason why
when u look up “mario cheats” it shows up “mario lopez cheating on wife”
don’t use google video, youtube’s better dummy
Loser.
And you dont,.
IM NOT A COWBOY. >=[
You only made this because you are jealous that go ogle has so many friends.
Google video is much more awesome than you.
why are you complaining? upload videos to your blog? excuse me while i go live my life…
Gosh this guy hates google
You rank pretty high for google sucks
So thats pretty good
ur totaly rught google sucks, i click upload video, then it asks me to log in, i do, it brings me back, i log in brings me back and always asks to log in, i followed googles directions on that exact problem, didnt do a damn thing
Youtube rocks how dare you say that google spoilded it?
Youtube has not changed at all since google bought them. I hope you all know that. And CF, why would scheduled maintenance, which is obviously improvements, make you NOT want to go to youtube again? Maybe you people should think out **** before you post it..
Well, too bad that now google has bought youtube huh?
Ever since google bought Youtube it’s been kind of sucky. Then again ; I had no idea it excisted until I saw it on the news that these two guys who started youtube in their garage sold out to google for like a lot of money.
And then I was like "cool". Though it sucks now. It slows down all the time. And recently it’s been down for "scheduled downtown" for a couple days. That makes me not to ever go on there again espeicly with how slow it is. Maybe they’re upgrading their servers or something, I donno.
On the other hand google video just plain sucks. It has larger videos but it’s just as slow as youtube.
google baught you tube
fucken idiot……google and youtube are the same ******* THING ******* CULT
I have published videos to Google Video and in about 15 mins, it went live.
-The PSP Sucks, like moldytoaster
quiero tener el video de un anime, pero en google.encuentrenlo.
gracias,,,
I agree with you, I havnt uploaded videos but the ones I downloaded (along with the google video media player) is ****. Lags like hell even when it says its fully loaded, i reckon thats because you need a permanent connection to google….I go elsewhere like break.com or youtube for better quality.
But on the bright side it should improve (eventually)
It does suck- they don’t even have a Linux video player. I’m not a Mac user, but they don’t have that either.
Sorry Google Video beta is not Web 2.0 complaint, it does not satisfy rule 4.7b, “The website design must make extensive use of rounded corners”. Note the keyword here is beta.