Google has just launched it’s beta video upload solution. Google allows owners of video to now upload their videos, eventually making them accessible via search.
Cool stuff, but here’s what really caught my attention: Google will allow publishers of video to get paid for their content if the choose.
Think about that for a second. The seeds for any content being put on Google by people and then being paid for it is quickly becoming a reality.
Imagining a day when writers and reporters don’t rely on the local newspaper for a paycheck, or movie-makers creating a paid audience for their work without studio support suddenly doesn’t seem so crazy.
Google’s pay-per-click infrastructure may someday be the backbone for people to make a living on a variety of things, such as video, audio, written word, whatever.
Now imagine a world where a gigantic Google resume database exists where job candidates are paid based on companies accessing it.
The harder-to-find candidates would get paid more based on simple supply and demand. And the incentive to post your resume would be there, because you’d get paid for it.
Doesn’t seem so crazy.
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April 15th, 2005 at 3:09 pm
It’s google’s world, we’re just living in it. Has *anyone* ever had the sheer brand power these guys now have?
Monster has stated their intentions are to “go local” and capture more of the newspaper classified/hourly/part-time hiring market, which is still worth billions of dollars, along with international expansion. In that light, their consumer-facing branding campaign makes sense, since they need to become known to guys (and gals) whose knowledge of the Internet is limited to what their 12-year-old kids tell them. This is no small challenge, not least of which is the cost of selling their product to Joe’s Pizza.
-snob