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 the Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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