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Google News spotlights YouTube, suffers outage

Google News spotlights YouTube, suffers outage

Editors' note:

Besides the Google News outage, there have been problems affecting other Google sites as well. Click here for the latest on those widespread Google outages. In addition, this story was corrected at 11:30 a.m. PDT to reflect that YouTube videos already had been available, but now are spotlighted as a part of a broader Google News facelift.


Google News was inaccessible for many on Thursday morning. But when it re-emerged, it sported newly prominent news videos hosted at YouTube.

Some news headlines now feature a small YouTube logo. Clicking on it triggers an embedded YouTube player with a news video. Although the videos had been present before, Google is calling attention to them with the new logo as part of a facelift launched Thursday, spokeswoman Jennie Johnson said.


Johnson said the videos are drawn from Google partners in the YouTube news channel.

Another change at Google News Thursday includes the addition of photos and images on the section pages devoted to topics such as Sci/Tech, World, and Business.

Thursday's changes followed another batch a week ago that added more heft to the "cluster" pages that show when you click on the "all 1,000 news articles" link that shows beneath groups of related headlines. Those earlier changes included images, excerpted quotations, sections that organize headlines by geography, and a section for blog headlines.

The greater attention to YouTube move not only increases the profile of video news within Google News, but also potentially increases the incentive for news organizations to work with YouTube. And it makes Google News more of a hub for news consumption, rather than just a mechanism for referring readers and viewers to other sites.

Some prominent media executives have been attacking Google, asserting it benefits more from professionally produced content than it gives back. Google argues that it sends billions of readers to news sites through Google News, whose results are sometimes blended into the main Google search results as well.

Earlier this year, Google began showing paid advertisements on Google News, too, when people perform searches.

Google News may be influential, but it's not perfect. The site was down Thursday morning for users in Boston, New York, the San Francisco Bay Area, Austin, Texas, and Sarasota, Fla., but worked for one user in London. One CNET News reader reported that the outage began at least at 5:50 a.m. PDT; service appeared to return for people between 6:30 a.m. and 7 a.m. PDT.

Google confirmed the outage.

"Earlier today, Google News was temporarily unavailable for many users from approximately 3:30 a.m. until around 7 a.m. Pacific Time. This issue has now been resolved," the company said in a statement. "We know how important Google News is to our users, so we take issues like this very seriously. We apologize to those users who were affected."

Twitter search, which can be a useful gauge of whether a problem with a Web site outage is widespread, showed many other reports as well.


News on YouTube itself isn't new; YouTube has a news channel, and Google has been encouraging citizen journalists to add their own content.

And YouTube, of course, is a force to be reckoned with in online video. Of the 9.5 billion video streams delivered online in the U.S. during April, 5.5 billion of them, or 58 percent, were through YouTube, according to statistics from Nielsen Online on Thursday. And while online video stream delivery overall in April grew 24 percent year over year, it grew 36 percent for YouTube--meaning that it's not only large, but it's also gaining share.

However, Hulu, which hosts video from NBC, Fox, and now Disney, is growing faster, Nielsen said. It's in second place with 373,000 streams delivered in April, or 4 percent share, but its year-over-year growth was 490 percent, Nielsen said

YouTube helps man deliver baby

YouTube helps man deliver baby

An engineer in Cornwall delivered his baby son after watching an instructional video on YouTube.

Marc Stephens watched the videos as a precaution when his wife Jo started to feel some discomfort.

Four hours later, his wife went into labour and started giving birth before an ambulance could arrive at their home in Redruth.

"I Googled how to deliver a baby, watched a few videos and basically swotted up," Mr Stephens told the BBC.

Jo Stephens said they had planned a home birth, but not quite in this manner.

"I woke up and realised I was having contractions every five minutes," Mrs Stephens said.

"I woke Marc up and we phoned the midwife, but they were all so busy they couldn't come round to our house and told us to call an ambulance. But before it arrived, it all started."

Preparation

A few hours earlier, Mr Stephens has been reading up on home births and how to cope with anything unexpected.

"The videos gave me peace of mind. I think I would have coped, but watching videos made things much easier."

One of the videos was called 'How to deliver a baby in a car'


Mr Stephens said his wife was on all fours when he saw the head starting to come out.

"This is our fourth child now and while for our first I spent most of the time at my wife's head, now I'm not afraid to go down to the business end.

"I was still on the phone to the midwife and told her that 'this is it'," he said.

Mr Stephens said he felt no panic, putting his ability to stay calm down to his Royal Navy training.

After delivering the 5lbs 5oz boy, Gabriel, the Stephens went to the Royal Cornwall Hospital at Treliske, where both mother and baby got a clean bill of health.

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Job offer for man in YouTube bid

Job offer for man in YouTube bid

A 61-year-old man from Northamptonshire has received job offers from as far afield as America after advertising himself on YouTube.

Ernest Hartley, a former RAF catering manager, was made redundant from an engineering firm in November.

The grandfather, from Woodford Halse, posted a video on the website saying he was looking for a job if anyone wanted to get in touch.

He has received two offers of work, including one from a US catering firm.

Mr Hartley, who is now speaking to the other company, said: "I don't want to live in America and I think it's a bit far to commute. But I think you have to be innovative at this stage of the game.

"Mentally I don't feel any different than when I was 25. I still have very much to offer."

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YouTube Will Take Half A Billion Off Google's

Analyst: YouTube Will Take Half A Billion Off Google's Bottom Line This Year

YouTube still isn't making money for Google (GOOG), and at last one analyst team thinks running the video sharing site will bleed $470 million over the course of 2009.

Despite a 41% share of the video market, Credit Suisse analysts Spencer Wang and Kenneth Sena project YouTube will only pull in $240 million in revenue this year.

That's up 20% from 2008. But Spencer and Kenneth say the costs of running YouTube are astronomical: About $711 million, with $360 million in bandwidth charges alone.

YouTube orchestra makes its debut

YouTube orchestra makes its debut

Heather Alexander goes behind the scenes for rehearsals and the big night

At least 90 musicians from more than 30 different countries have given their first performance in the YouTube Symphony Orchestra in New York.

The video-sharing website held a contest that allowed anyone, anywhere to upload a clip of themselves playing. A selection went to a popular vote.

The winners were flown in to play at Carnegie Hall - one of the most prestigious venues in the world.

Colombian trombonist John Wilson Gonzalez said it had been "marvellous".

"It was unimaginable that I could get to play in Carnegie Hall, a mythical theatre where only the great musicians play," he told the news agency AFP.

The musicians came from as far away as Australia and South Korea and were aged between 15 and 55.

Some had never left their home countries before, let alone played in such a high-profile venue - and they had just three days to practise before Wednesday evening's concert.

They performed an extensive programme that included works by Bach, Mozart, Villa Lobos, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Lou Harrison, John Cage, and a specially written piece called Internet Symphony No 1, Eroica, by Chinese composer Tan Dun.

'Astonished'

The orchestra is led by San Francisco Symphony Orchestra music director Michael Tilson Thomas.

Musicians were selected in a vote by YouTube viewers


"We're going to give a terrific show at Carnegie Hall that will have some very new and different things about it, both in the way it sounds and the way it looks," he said ahead of the performance.

"But really the most important part of this is how the world out there on the internet will be experiencing that and that will be developing over time as more edits and more uploads take place."

Over 3,000 posted audition videos, and 200 finalists were selected before YouTube viewers voted for the winners.

Cellist Pierre Charles, a 27-year-old student from Paris, said that during rehearsals "the sound was right straight away."

"I was astonished because I thought it would take a lot longer to get ready," he said.

Some of the other musicians said they hoped the concert would help classical music reach a wider audience, including more young people.

"It's not as exciting as [music video game] Guitar Hero or [rock band] Van Halen, so whatever we can do to make classical music and acoustic live music more prominent is a good thing," said Jonathan Brummel, a professional trombone player from California

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