Micro Persuasion: Google Video Bumps Froogle, Groups from Home Page?

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Google Video Bumps Froogle, Groups from Home Page?

So long Froogle, hellooo Google Video. The latter has replaced the former on Google's coveted home page. Must be that darn YouTube! If you click on the more button you can get results from Froogle, Google Book Search and Google Groups. I'm not sure if this is a UI test or global.

So if this is indeed global, what does this mean for you? This is Google's biggest move to date to make citizen's media accessible to its broad global audience. If someone searches for your brand and clicks on video they're knee deep in America's Funniest (online) Videos.

Tags: google, froogle, googlevideo

Posted at 11:31 PM in Search, Video | Permalink

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