Google figured out early on that video would be a great addition to its search business, so in 2005 it launched Google Video. Focused on making deals with the entertainment industry for second-rate content, and overly cautious on what users could upload, data-offer-url=”https://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/08/brief-history-of-google-video.html” class=”external-link text link” data-event-click=”{"element":"ExternalLink","outgoingURL":"https://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/08/brief-history-of-google-video.html"}” href=”https://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/08/brief-history-of-google-video.html” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank”>it flopped. Meanwhile, a tiny startup run by a handful of employees working above a San Mateo, California, pizzeria was exploding, simply by letting anyone upload their goofy videos and not worrying too much about who held copyrights to the clips. In…
