Google’s done some pretty cool stuff like revolutionize webmail, let you text searches from your phone, add events to your calendar from emails. But their video offerings seem a little lackluster.
They’re running a trial of a new video ad system by letting you watch some of the videos they normally charge for, for free. Let’s take a look at the the selection that will assuredly attract throngs of people to vet their new ad system.
In their free movies section we have:
- Hunt For Amazing Treasures (Season 1 Vol. 2)
- Karate Frightmare
- Untamed Earth - Avalanche!
- Shark Files: Shark Shooters
I haven’t seen the likes of this shit since Sunset Video closed in junior high. It evokes images of chewed up VHS boxes bleached out from too many hours in the store window, and corrugated boxes lying around filled unsorted tapes. Google Video is just one Buns of Steel collection short of being a 99 cent store.
They also have a collection of cartoons no one has ever seen like Roger Ramjet and Mr. Magoo. Again, it’s like offering Heathcliff instead of Garfield because he’s also an orange cat, but 10 times cheaper.
Google is in danger of becoming the public access of video on the internet, while iTunes sells the Must See TV shit. Then again, why do I care? I don’t even watch TV any more.
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