GOOGLE VIDEO
(Posted 2005-11-20 17:26:56 by basscomm)

By now you've likely heard of Google Video [ http://video.google.com ], the
service that lets you upload whatever video you might happen to have laying
around. This service has implications that I could only dream of. I could
finally see some obscure video clip that had been floating around the
Internet for a long time, or I could see new and exciting short videos that
I might not have otherwise have access to. 

Recently, the ability to view random [ http://video.google.com/videorandom
] videos piqued my interest. I was not fully prepared for the absolutely
inane videos I would find. 

I'm not so much curious why people have these videos as I am why they
decided to upload them to this exciting new service.

Some examples (these are the short ones, there are several that are _over
an hour long_ where these came from):
Eating a fortune cookie [
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7913777422045973049 ]
'Fun' at an apartment [
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5132699019390932433 ]
Drink water! [ http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1988055753424585307
]
The daughter at the Putt-Putt [
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3082096478090041992 ]
Walking down the hall of the Mariott [
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5267574680765318690 ]
Micro truck race [
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3667906664707520844 ]
whatever this is [
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7957848510598163109 ]
school hijinks [
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2338477935781183208 ]

Oh there's more where those came from. Lots more. If you watch any of the
above expecting something wacky to happen, you're out of luck. It's like
being stranded in some kind of strange purgatory where all you can watch
are videos of babies being babies and the things that people who just got a
camera and don't know what to do with it are filming. 

Of course there are also some videos out there that are worth watching [
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5369258709684229039 ] but consider
it a profound stroke of luck or well-picked search terms that led you to
them.


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