Google Inc, the search engine specialist, is testing a ‘video blogging’ application, the company’s co-founder Larry Page revealed on Monday in a conference in San Francisco’s Moscone Center. In a few days’ time, users would be able to archive their video clips.
“In the next few days, we’re actually going to start taking video submissions from people, and we’re not quite sure what we’re going to get, but we decided we’d try this experiment,” Page said.
The move follows the January launch of Google Video, a search service that allows users to find not only transcripts of television programs but also links to downloadable video clips from vendors like Fox News, PBS, ABC, C-SPAN, and NBA among several others.
For now, these videos are not available directly on Google’s site but are displayed as links to other sites with a still of the video and caption. The company has said that it would subsequently add video playback once it has thrashed out broadcasting rights issues with content providers.
Page, however, admitted that certain issues, regarding the nature of the content that can be uploaded, have to be resolved.
As of now, a number of sites offer facilities for video blogging, better known as vlogging. Given the availability of free space and hi-tech digital cameras, the service is likely to become a hit with netizens.
Previously, with the acquisition of Blogger.com in 2003, Google made a foray into web logging, better known as blogging.
Google’s rival Yahoo has also announced plans to beef up its video searching service.
