What Google is doing with Google Video

What is Google, Inc.(NASDAQ:GOOG) doing with Google Video now that it has bought YouTube? Well, not a company to just jettison a product that had quite a bit of initial fanfare, Google is making a wise decision and will be turning Google Video into a "video search" site that will be a search engine for video content all across the web.

Wow -- I wonder if purveyors of video content will get as mad at Google as the websites (news websites, generally) that get all miffed when Google indexes content into its search engine?

Google continues to try and "democratize" the Internet and it's gotten quite few enemies int he process --- but I like what the company does. For one, it levels the playing field and tries to wrangle absolute control over freely-available content from one central source out into the whole wide world (web).

So, while paid video downloads from Google Video will probably go away soon,Google Video will still be an important tool for customers looking for specific pieces of video from websites across the globe. Hey --- can't YouTube be used for this purpose now already via clip tagging?