Google is closing its Google Videos site and deleting all the files that have been uploaded to it.
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Google Videos began as a video-sharing site, but it became something of a lame duck when Google bought the web's leading video site, YouTube, in 2006. In 2009, Google stopped allowing people to upload their movies to Videos, but has continued to host the videos that are already there.
That ends on 13 May, when the videos will disappear and the service turns into a video search index. Videos that have been uploaded to the service will not be saved, so if they are not preserved elsewhere, users will have until 13 May to salvage them.
For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Google Videos bins your movies, but can we expect websites to live forever? on CNET UK.
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