Google Video was a free video hosting service from Google, similar to YouTube, that allowed video clips to be hosted on Google servers and embedded onto other websites. Launched January 25, 2005; shut down August 20, 2012 — it lived 7 years. One of 23 Google products killed in 2012. Google Video was a free video hosting service, operated by Google from 2005 to 2012. Wiki link Data: Killed by Google (killedbygoogle.com, MIT).