Google Video

Google Videos was once a video sharing website that allowed users to upload footage more than 10 minutes long. It has seen been reduced to a mere search engine. Oh how a site has fallen with little noise.

It first launched in 2005 (just before YouTube launched (and the same year YouTube did start, ironically)). The site itself is intact

The videos themselves have a lack of video quality, but that seems to come from Google not really caring to update the video part.

One could speculate the reason for shutdown (or the lack of real updates) of the video uploading feature is because of YouTube's success and buyout by Google. This is further proven by the fact that the Google Video Player was never updated after August 2006. Or better yet, Google just didn't care about their service and just decided to buy a more popular competitor.