Google Closes Internet Video Service

Did you know that Google has a video rental and sale service? Did you or anyone you know use the service? - Perhaps that is why Google is closing that enterprise:

“Google Inc. is shutting down a service that sold and rented online video, ending a 19-month experiment doomed by the proliferation of free clips on other Web sites like the Internet search leader’s YouTube subsidiary.”

link: Google to Stop Web Video Rentals, Sales

It is odd that Google, a company that specializes in advertising, did not make market this service more aggressively. This deviated from Google’s principal business model. Google will try the sales market again with the offer of storage space.

Catherine