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Re:Adobe gives up on web-design product to rival Figma after... by asah on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @11:08AM (#39205463)
Google Video was killed after the YouTube acquisition and YT flourished under Google.
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Re:Adobe gives up on web-design product to rival Figma after... by deaddodo on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @11:18AM (#39205574)
YouTube was bought mainly because Google Video was failing as a platform. About the only thing it ever offered over YouTube were longform lectures and presentations. Combining the two platforms (e.g. allowing longer videos but using YouTube's social interface) just made YouTube better.
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Re:Adobe gives up on web-design product to rival Figma after... by jwells89 on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @12:23PM (#39206541)
I was a bit bummed when Google Video was shuttered. In some ways its simple to-the-point UX was nice compared to that of YouTube, which had become cluttered pretty early on. It was also sometimes a backup for when videos on YouTube got taken down.
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Re:Adobe gives up on web-design product to rival Figma after... by silvestrov on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @11:33AM (#39205774)
Isn't there something about that seeking in movies was only possible in Google Video and not on (original) YouTube?

So they ended up with the YouTube frontend and mostly Google Video backend?

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Re:Adobe gives up on web-design product to rival Figma after... by deaddodo on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @12:08PM (#39206296)
Yes, modern YouTube's infrastructure inherits more from Google Video than classic YouTube, but the frontend descends from YouTube's (albeit, completely Ship of Theseus'd at this point).
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Re:Adobe gives up on web-design product to rival Figma after... by gowld on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @01:50PM (#39207727)
And because the owners of YouTube couldn't afford to run it, so it needed a wealthy investor.
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