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Google Video pulls plug, leaving you with junk

We saw it coming. Google Video shuts down. But Do No Evil?

It’s not often that Google kills off one of its services, especially one which was announced with much fanfare at a big mainstream event like CES 2006. Yet Google Video’s commercial aspirations have indeed been terminated: the company has announced that it will no longer be selling video content on the site. The news isn’t all that surprising, given that Google’s commercial video efforts were launched in rather poor shape and never managed to take off. The service seemed to only make the news when embarrassing things happened.

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