A video channel from Google.

As this article states, Google has a video channel that they've released. I'm not sure why everybody thinks video is this important that someone would put out what is probably a subpar thing. I say thing as I don't know what else to call it. There have been a lot of videos submitted to Google that might be interesting or even educational, but there isn't much context to it. I think sometime search engines behave like a societal group vomit. The indiscriminate posting of almost anything has desensitized us and sometimes lowering the bar for what we will accept. I'm not saying that it's not a good thing to have video searchable online, quite the contrary. But I know that many things will be submitted that are just more chewing gum for the eyes. What bothers me most in the 21st century is that we become a people that aren't very analytical or discriminating in what they consume. Obviously video is one of those things that is still in its infancy but if we don't demand much, we won't get much in the future. By that I mean content, quality content.
Search engines are all about bringing more to a desktop computer without regard to what it is. I wish people were more demanding on what kind of services that they would like to see. But for right now companies like Google and Yahoo will simply put up whatever they need to put up to stay ahead of the competition. Many times it doesn't reflect goodness or a higher standard. That's always been the problem with any kind of medium that transmits information, what will it be used for. And I asked the same question that Francis Schaeffer asked, "how then should we live?" Of course he was talking about in the light of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, how should we live? Now I know I've come a long way from talking about somebody offering video that is searchable and gone all the way to what kind of society we want to have. But I think this is symptomatic of where we are as a people right now. We seem to consume things without really knowing or examining the consequences of it.

With search engines it's all about more and now and it looks it's going to stay that way for while unfortunately. I do like other search entities like GuruNet which gives you more quality information and general searching too. At least in this situation you have a choice. Never before has so much information been available and that's a good thing, but there's no limits to what we might access except for what we personally will not tolerate. I wish the Internet had certain levels of quality, but unfortunately that's not going to happen and we need to make personal choices of what is acceptable. Google offering videos online is fine, but once again it brings up that we are a society now of regurgitating everything for everyone and now nothing is really special.

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