Google Video and YouTube Coming Closer Together

Google is starting the process of using YouTube as part of its ecosystem. Last week, Google integrated YouTube into the Google Video search engine, so now when you search on Google Video, you will see videos hosted on both Google Video and YouTube. Also, YouTube has been switched over to a more accurate and faster Google-powered system, although it does not contain Google Video content.
Also, it gives Google an out should it choose to shutter Google Video, as Google would still have the search engine in place at video.google.com, making the whole thing not a total waste. Eventually, the logical thing is for the two services to merge, if not in a literal way, at least in a technology way, with both sharing the same index, the same file storage, and the same search engine, just with different interfaces and segregated communities, in order to provide something […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg