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Google is shutting down Google Video on 29 April, two years after the search engine company acquires YouTube. In an e-mail sent to Google Video users, the search engine company states that the strength of Google Video lies in its ability to let people search videos across the web, regardless of where they are hosted. And this move will only enable them to focus more on developing technologies advantageous to searchers worldwide.

The search engine company created Google Video in January 2005 to promote the online video industry and compete with YouTube. Although it has been successful in its former goal, Google video could not contend with
YouTube for video searches. Presently a new download button appears on the website by which the search engine company is encouraging users to upload videos to YouTube instead.

YouTube, since 2006, is adding a sizeable chunk to the revenue stream of the search engine company, drawing over 2 billion video views per day.

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Korean search engines have sued Google for anti-trust activities. The owners of these search engines contend that Google is blocking their activities in Android-enabled smartphones. These search engines are unable to function on Android phones and they say that it is difficult for them compete with Google because of this.

Lois Kim, spokesperson for Google in Korea responded to the suit filed by Korean search engines, saying "Android is an open platform, and carriers and partners are free to decide which applications and services to include."
Interestingly the Korean search engines companies have themselves been accused of anti-trust practices earlier.

Earlier, Microsoft had raised similar issues to those raised by Korean search engines and accused Google of manipulating search engine results.