On January 25, 2005 Google founded
Google Video, a free video hosting service that allowed video clips to be hosted on Google servers and embedded in other websites. This allowed websites to host video remotely without running into bandwidth or storage-capacity issues. On October 9, 2006 Google acquired
YouTube and Google Videos began its evolution into its current form as a video search engine. In 2009, Google Video stopped accepting new video uploads,
[2] and users had the opportunity to migrate their videos to YouTube. Google shut down Google Videos on August 20, 2012.
