"Google’s community transition from Google Groups, to Blogger, to Orkut, to Google Video has been a long and difficult path."

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Originally uploaded by benbarren.

If the Book vs TV debate plays out again, Blogs vs Video online could display similar characteristics. (pitting bloggers to be like low circulation authors who opine about the onslaught of low culture)

There is no doubt video is now a must have feature for today's portal and all the flickrfeatures that come with it. It's a compelling hitwise graph on Google Video vs Froogle taken from a good piece over at Search Engine Journal : "Google’s community transition from Google Groups, to Blogger, to Orkut, to Google Video has been a long and difficult path."