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Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 57:08 David Rosenthal Google starts working on Google Video, and the idea is that there's a lot of information in video, and thus it fits Google's mission, Ben, as you were saying earlier.
- ▶ 58:49 David Rosenthal So this Google video project actually came out of the ads org.
- ▶ 59:11 Ben Gilbert Google Video was first launched in 2005 as a search service for television content.
- ▶ 59:48 David Rosenthal You can see how this conceivably could be a product vision you could have at the time, but Google video was the wrong product.
- ▶ 1:00:02 David Rosenthal It was just search that then directed you just like Google's main search business model off of Google video to go consume it somewhere else.
- ▶ 1:04:17 Ben Gilbert Unlike Google Video, which would take one to two days.
- ▶ 1:04:43 David Rosenthal Google Video didn't have it at the beginning.
- ▶ 1:05:37 David Rosenthal So you can see how YouTube here, not only are they the correct video platform for the web and just doing it much better than Google's doing it with Google video.
- ▶ 1:15:37 Ben Gilbert I think they, they were very smart to, rather than trying to continue investing in Google Video, to basically say, they got the lightning in the bottle, they have the consumer brand, they have the attention, let's just go buy that thing.