Google says may launch video service in Japan

[bill]

article [news.yahoo.com]
Google Inc., the world's biggest Web search engine, said on Thursday it was seeking partners to contribute contents for a video service in Japan.

"We haven't yet been able to introduce Google Video in Japan, and hope to do so soon," Google Japan's President Norio Murakami said during a conference in Tokyo. "Going forward, Google's services can't work without cooperation from contents partners."

Murakami said video was the next step for Google in Japan, following the company's online news and book searches.

Given the number of Japanese Videos already on YouTube I'd say Google is quite behind on this one. The younger Japanese have found ways to use the US services already.

[azimao529]

[techon.nikkeibp.co.jp...] (Japanese language article)

[edited by: bill at 4:34 am (utc) on Sep. 11, 2006]
[edit reason] We need to tell people when we're linking to non-English content [/edit]

[bill]

Thanks for the update azimao529.

There are quite a few news articles out there now about Google Japan adding video [news.google.com] since the news broke last week.