Google Video launched in Australia

Stan Beer
Wednesday, 27 September 2006 19:03

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Google has launched of Google Video in Australia, enabling Australians to search for, upload and share their videos. When users visit Google Video at http://video.google.com.au, they can now discover a large range of local video content, including funny home videos, movie trailers, music videos and sports clips - from both amateur and professional video producers - as well as search through Google's growing international index of online videos.

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Users can upload a video at http://video.google.com.au free of charge, and share it with Google Video users worldwide.  There is no limit to the file size that users can upload.  Additionally, Google Video enables users to:

- Search for video content from anywhere in the world, from user-generated videos to professionally produced work

- Post content to blogs and community sites such as MySpace

- Download content to a personal computer or handheld devices like the Apple Video iPod or Sony PSP

- Look up the Top 100 videos as well as track content that is quickly gaining popularity

- Rate content from one to five stars, as well as to add their own comments

- Share their content with users globally

"We believe that online video is a huge growth area on the internet. The technology has become accessible and increasing bandwidth has made it easy for people to express themselves and share their content with one another," said Richard Kimber, managing director, South East Asia, Google Inc. "We have developed a locally tailored version of Google Video specially for Australian users, and we're excited to be working with Australian content providers and advertisers to help them reach a global online audience." 

In addition to amateur video producers who are uploading their own videos to Google Video, a number of local video content producers have been working with Google to distribute their content through Google Video.  “We have a very strong list of content providers at launch and this is clear evidence of the demand in the Australian market for an online video service powered by Google,” added Kimber.