I agree with some of this, but be reasonable. It's silly to describe what happened to Google Video as "just giving up". They abandoned that specific product be

I agree with some of this, but be reasonable. It's silly to describe what happened to Google Video as "just giving up". They abandoned that specific product because it was getting no traction. Instead, they won the entire category for at least a generation by buying YouTube, working out all of its licensing issues, and integrating the best elements of Google Video's features and design. You'd be hard-pressed to argue they made was the wrong choice for anybody. Meebo was practically an acqui-hire, never really a Google product.