Google has always been known for its simple minimalistic home page which I think sets them apart from the other search engines(especially the major ones) and earlier today i noticed that they made a little tweak. I was checking the SERP result for the keyword "isulong seoph" when i noticed the new Video link from Google's home page. It seems that Google removed or should i say moved the link to Froogle, Google's shopping search engine, and replaced it with a link to Google Video. This is probably related to YouTube's growing popularity with videos on the Internet market. John Battelle, a well-known search blogger and author of "The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture, said on Yahoo! News:
"The fact is that YouTube is hot, video is hot, and there's a lot of money projected to be shifted from video advertising on TV to video advertising on the Web". "It would be irresponsible if Google didn't set itself up to take advantage of that, and that's what they've done," he said.
Although not all of Google's international sites have changed their home page yet, I believe its a good move as far as the video trend on the net market is concerned.
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So the froogle link was moved. It was pushed into the “more” popup sub menu with groups and books. So its only 1 more mouseclick. Besides web> images> videos> just seems right. And soon when you search for something you can expect next to the three sample images three sample videos.
I hate downloading videos on Google…cause they dont run on other players…you have to download the Google Video player to play and save them….but the DL rate is fast…compared to YouTube…based on my own experiences!
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