Last week I wrote about the project to save all of the content from the closing Google Video. I personally ended up downloading 500 of those videos totaling more than 20GB of content. In all volunteers downloaded more than 18TB of content. Well, it turns out that Google heard the cries and has taken the following steps:
Google Video content will stay live for an indefinite amount of time.
Those with Google Video content now have a one-click solution to copy their content to their YouTube accounts.
Basically, a complete success! You can read all the details at the Archive Team site.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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Last week I wrote about the project to save all of the content from the closing Google Video. I personally ended up downloading 500 of those videos totaling more than 20GB of content. In all volunteers downloaded more than 18TB of content. Well, it turns out that Google heard the cries and has taken the following steps: