The Revolution Will Be Televised
November 8th, 2005 by Doc Searls
Google, which famously runs on N thousand Linux servers (they don't say; perhaps modesty forbids), has leveraged its vast platform yet again with the launch of Google Video.
In sort-of-a hark back to the earliest days of Yahoo (which predates Google by a few years, for those of you who may not remember), Google invites folks to submit their videos to the Google directory, and conveniently provides Mac, Windows and (YES!) Linux uploaders.
At current count, Google findsa whopping total of thirteen videos off a search for "linux". (Yahoo, which has had video search for awhile, finds 4,551.)
Let's help Google out a bit, then.
And let's also let each other know how it goes. We can watch what's happening on the Google Video blog as well.
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Numbers of linux videos on Google increase
On August 8th, 2006 Thorsten (not verified) says:
After 9 month the number of linux videos on Google is 676. More help is needed ;o)
Not for me this time
On November 9th, 2005 webdesign hamburg (not verified) says:
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Currently, the playback feature of Google Video isn't available in your
country.
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Lol, poor germany :)
I dont care that much.
Why not try alltheweb?
On November 9th, 2005 barryp says:
I surfed over to www.alltheweb.com and typed "linux" into their video lookup search engine (which they've had for a while). It returned 2840 entries with content filtering turned off.
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IT Carlow, Ireland
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You seem to need flash
On November 8th, 2005 Anonymous (not verified) says:
You seem to need flash though to actually watch the videos. Takes the shine off, in my opinion.
You are missing the point
On November 10th, 2005 drgalaxy says:
I think that flash is a great 'least common denominator' platform for web multimedia, however, it is a closed system that cannot be expanded on.
The main arguments for Flash are: 1) the content works the same on all OS/browser combinations, 2) loads quickly & doesn't leak memory, 3) artistic expression - Flash is primarily a creative tool, 4) linux version doesn't stink as much anymore!
Compared to Java or Windows Media, Macromedia Flash is great! Besides, Google is working on a browser plugin for web video based on (the awesome) VLC (http://videolan.org) and you can bet they are going to take advantage of VLC's cross platform architecture.
Yes, Flash is annoying.
On November 9th, 2005 Anonymous (not verified) says:
Yes, Flash is annoying. They ought to transcode to Theora and point your favorite media player (mplayer, realplayer, whatever) at it...
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