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| URL | video.google.com |
| Type of site | video sharing |
| Registration | no (required to upload) |
| Available language(s) | multilingual |
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| Launched | 2005 |
| Current status | active |
Google Video is a free Video sharing website and also a video search engine service from Google that allows anyone to upload video clips to Google's web servers as well as make their own media available free of charge; some videos are also offered for sale through the Google Video Store. Uniform Resource Locator is an URI which also specifies where the identified resource is available and the protocol for retrieving it A video sharing service allows individuals to Upload Video clips to an Internet website In the Philosophy of language, a natural language (or ordinary language) is a Language that is spoken or written in phonemic-alphabetic or phonemically-related Google Inc is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online Google Inc is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online Video is the technology of electronically capturing, Recording, processing storing transmitting and reconstructing a sequence of Still images
Users can search and play these uploaded videos directly from the Google Video website, as well as download video files and remotely embed them on their web pages. A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages
Uploaded videos were saved as a . gvi files under the "Google Videos" folder in "My Videos" and reports of the video(s) details are logged and stored in the user account. The report sorts and lists the number of times that each of the users videos have been viewed and downloaded within a specific time frame. These range from the previous day, week, month or the entire time that the videos have been there for. Totals are calculated and displayed and the information can be downloaded into a spreadsheet format or printed out.
Competing services include iFilm, Metacafe, Veoh, blip.tv and Outloud.tv. ifilmcom was an online archive of Short films, movie trailers, and other video clips of interest Metacafe is a Community based Video sharing web site that specializes in short-form original entertainment where users upload view and share Video clips Veoh is a San Diego California -based company which runs an Internet Television service allowing users to find and watch major studio content independent productions bliptv is a video sharing service designed for creators of User-generated content. On October 9, 2006 Google agreed to buy former competitor YouTube for $1. YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload view and share Video clips YouTube was created in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees 65 billion in stock, but YouTube will remain a separate service under its own identity for the near future, though Google video searches include YouTube results as well. [1]
Google announced on June 13, 2007 that the Google Video search results would begin to include videos discovered by their search crawlers on other hosting services, in addition to YouTube's and their own uploads. Events 1525 - Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the Celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Search result links now open a frameset with a Google Video header at the top, and the original player page below it, similar to the way the Google Images search results are presented.
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Video content
Google Video is geared towards providing a large archive of freely searchable videos. Besides amateur media, Internet videos, viral ads, and movie trailers, the service also aims to distribute commercial professional media, such as televised content and movies. Viral marketing and viral advertising refer to Marketing techniques that use pre-existing Social networks to produce increases in Brand awareness
A number of educational discourses by Google employees have been recorded and made available for viewing via Google Video. The lectures have been done mainly at the employees' former universities. The topics cover Google technologies and software engineering but also include other pioneering efforts by major players in the software engineering field.
Various media companies offered content on Google Video for purchase, including CBS programs, NBA, music videos, and independent film. CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. Initially, the content of a number of broadcasting companies (such as ABC, NBC, CNN) was available as free streaming content or stills with closed captioning. The American Broadcasting Company ( ABC) is an American Television network. The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Cable News Network, usually referred to by its Initialism CNN, is a major English language Television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner In addition, the U.S. National Archive uses Google Video to make historic films available online. The United States National Archives and Records Administration ( NARA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government charged [2]
Google Video also searches other non-affiliated video sites from web crawls. Sites searched by Google Video in addition to their own videos and YouTube include GoFish, Vimeo, MySpace, Biku, and Yahoo! Video. YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload view and share Video clips YouTube was created in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees GoFish ( OTCBB: GOFH is a free video sharing Website, headquartered in San Francisco, California, allowing visitors MySpace is a popular social networking Website offering an interactive user-submitted network of friends personal profiles blogs groups photos music and It appears that Google Video is moving away from an online video archive and towards a search engine for videos, similar to their web and image searches.
As of August 2007, the DTO/DTR (download-to-own/rent) program ended. Users who previously purchased a video from Google Video were no longer able to view them. Credits for users where made available as values for Google Checkout and were valid for 60 days. Google Checkout is an online payment processing service provided by Google aimed at simplifying the process of paying for online purchases [3] [4]
Video distribution methods
Google Video offers both free services and commercial videos, the latter controlled with digital rights management. Digital rights management ( DRM) is a generic term that refers to Access control technologies used by hardware manufacturers publishers and Copyright holders
Website
The basic way to watch the videos is through the Google Video website, video.google.com. Each video has a unique web address in the format of http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=<video id>, and that page contains an embedded Flash Video file which can be viewed in any Flash-enabled browser. Flash Video is the name of a File format used to deliver Video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player (initially produced Adobe Flash (previously called Shockwave Flash and Macromedia Flash) is a set of Multimedia software created by Macromedia and currently
Permalinks to a certain point in a video are also possible, in the format of http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=<video id>#XXhYYmZZs[5] (that is, with a fragment identifier containing a timestamp). In computer Hypertext, a fragment identifier is a short string of characters that refers to a resource that is subordinate to another primary
Flash Video
The browser automatically caches the flash file while it plays, and it can be retrieved from the browser cache once it has fully played. In Computer science, a cache (kæʃ like "cash") is a collection of data duplicating original Web caching is the caching of Web documents (eg HTML pages, images) in order to reduce bandwidth usage server load There are also several tools and browser extensions to download the file. It can be then viewed in video players that can handle flash, for example Media Player Classic (with ffdshow installed), MPlayer or Wimpy. Media Player Classic ( MPC) is a compact media player for Microsoft Windows. ffdshow is a media decoder and encoder mainly used for the fast and high-quality decoding of video in the MPEG-4 ASP (e MPlayer is a free and Open source media player. The program is available for all major Operating systems including Linux Wimpy is the brand name of a chain of Hamburger restaurants based in the United Kingdom.
Google Video Player
| Google Video Player | |
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| Latest release | 2. A software developer is a person or organization concerned with facets of the software development process wider than design and coding a somewhat broader scope of Google Inc is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online A software release is the distribution whether public or private of an initial or new and upgraded version of a Computer software product 0. 0. 060608 / 2006-08-22 |
| OS | Mac OS X, Windows |
| Genre | Video player |
| License | Freeware |
Google Video Player was another way to view Google videos; it runs on Windows and Mac OS X. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 392 - Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor. An operating system (commonly abbreviated OS and O/S) is the software component of a Computer system that is responsible for the management and coordination Mac OS X (mæk oʊ ɛs tɛn is a line of computer Operating systems developed marketed and sold by Apple Inc, the latest of which is pre-loaded on all currently Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Computer software can be organized into categories based on common function type or field of use A software license (or software licence in commonwealth usage is a Legal instrument governing the usage or redistribution of copyright protected software Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Mac OS X (mæk oʊ ɛs tɛn is a line of computer Operating systems developed marketed and sold by Apple Inc, the latest of which is pre-loaded on all currently The Google Video Player rendered files in Google's own Google Video File (. gvi) media format and supported playlists in "Google Video Pointer" (. gvp) format. When users downloaded to their computers, the resulting file used to be a small . gvp (pointer) file rather than a . gvi file. When run, the . gvp file would download a . gvi (movie) file to the user's default directory.
As of August 17, 2007, Google Video Player has been discontinued and is no longer available for download from Google Video website. Events 986 - A Byzantine army was destroyed in the pass of Trajan's Gate by the Bulgarians under the Comitopuli Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. The option to download videos in GVI format has also been removed, the only download option remaining for iPod/PSP (MP4 format).
While early versions of Google's in-browser video player code were based on the open source VLC Media Player, the last version of Google Video Player was not based on VLC, according to its readme file. A readme (or read me) file contains information about other files in a directory or archive and is very commonly distributed with computer However, it did include the OpenSSL cryptographic toolkit and some libraries from the Qt widget toolkit. OpenSSL is an Open source implementation of the SSL and TLS protocols Cryptography (or cryptology; from Greek grc κρυπτός kryptos, "hidden secret" and grc γράφω gráphō, "I write" Qt (pronounced "cute" by its creators is a Cross-platform application development framework widely used for the development of GUI programs (in which This article is about web page code widgets For other uses see Widget. [6]
GVI format and conversion
Google Video Files (. gvi), and latterly its . avi files, are modified Audio Video Interleave (. avi) files that have an extra list containing the FourCC "goog" immediately following the header. A FourCC (literally four - c haracter c ode is a sequence of four Bytes used to uniquely identify data formats The list can be removed with a hex editor to avoid playback issues with various video players. [7][8] The video is encoded in DivX4 alongside an MP3 audio stream. DivX is a brand name of products created by DivX Inc (formerly DivXNetworks Inc MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a Digital audio encoding format using a form of Lossy data compression DivX video players can render . DivX is a brand name of products created by DivX Inc (formerly DivXNetworks Inc gvi Google Video Files without format conversion (after changing the extension from . gvi to . avi, although this method of just renaming the file extension does not work with videos purchased with DRM to inhibit unauthorized copying). Digital rights management ( DRM) is a generic term that refers to Access control technologies used by hardware manufacturers publishers and Copyright holders Among other software VirtualDub is able to read . VirtualDub is a Video capture and Video processing application for Microsoft Windows written by Avery Lee gvi files and allows the user to convert them into different formats of choice. There are also privately developed software solutions, such as GVideo Fix, that can convert them to . avi format without recompression. MEncoder with "-oac copy -ovc copy" as parameters also suffices. MEncoder is a free command line video decoding encoding and filtering tool released under the GNU General Public License.
AVI and MP4
Besides GVI and Flash Video, Google provided its content through downloadable Audio Video Interleave (. Flash Video is the name of a File format used to deliver Video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player (initially produced avi) and MPEG-4 (. MPEG-4 is a collection of methods defining compression of audio and visual (AV digital data mp4) video files. Not all formats are available through the website's interface, however, depending on the user's operating system.
Where available, Google's "save as" function for Windows/Mac produced an . avi file, while the "save as" function for iPod and PSP produced an . iPod is a popular brand of Portable media players designed and marketed by Apple Inc The PlayStation Portable (officially abbreviated PSP) is a Handheld game console manufactured and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. mp4 file.
The . avi file is not in standard . avi format. To play the file in a popular media player such as Winamp or Windows Media Player, the file must first be modified using a hex editor to delete the first LIST block in the file header, which starts at byte 12 (000C hex, first byte in file is byte 0) and ends at byte 63 (003F hex). [7][8] Optionally, the file length (in bytes 4 to 7, little endian) should then be amended by subtracting 52 (3F hex - 0C hex = 33 hex).
Winamp and Windows Media Player cannot play the unmodified . avi file because the non-standard file header corrupts the file. However, Media Player Classic, MPlayer and the VLC Media Player will play the unmodified . Media Player Classic ( MPC) is a compact media player for Microsoft Windows. MPlayer is a free and Open source media player. The program is available for all major Operating systems including Linux avi file, and the Google . mp4 file. Media Player Classic only if an MPEG4 DirectShow Filter such as ffdshow is installed. DirectShow (sometimes abbreviated as DS or DShow) codename Quartz, is a Multimedia framework and API produced by Microsoft ffdshow is a media decoder and encoder mainly used for the fast and high-quality decoding of video in the MPEG-4 ASP (e Most Linux media players Xine, Totem (media player), the Linux version of the VLC Media Player and Kaffeine have no problems with Google's . xine (officially ksin is a Multimedia playback engine for Unix-like Operating systems released under the GNU General Public License. Totem is a Free software media player (audio and video for the GNOME Computer Desktop environment which runs on Linux, Kaffeine is a media player for Unix-like Operating systems running KDE. avi.
An . mp4 file will play in Winamp if an MPEG4/H. 264 DirectShow Filter such as ffdshow and an MP4 Splitter such as Haali are installed, and the extension ;MP4 is added to the Extension List in the Winamp DirectShow decoder configuration. ffdshow is a media decoder and encoder mainly used for the fast and high-quality decoding of video in the MPEG-4 ASP (e
As of Spring 2008, the option to download files in . AVI format has been removed, and files are only available as Flash video or . MP4, while the same videos when accessed through the companion YouTube. com site are available only in Flash video format.
Third-party download services
Google offers users the means to save only some of the videos on the site, mostly for copyright reasons. Their documentation goes so far as to claim that only these videos can be downloaded. However, since viewing a video requires downloading it to the computer, their software merely makes it an inconvenience to save downloaded videos on the computer. A number of solutions to this problem, including external software and bookmarklets, have been developed. A bookmarklet is an Applet, a small computer application stored as the URL of a bookmark in a Web browser or as a Hyperlink on a
RSS feed
Google Video search results can be viewed in an RSS feed by clicking the RSS link to the right of the results count[9] or by adding &output=rss to the end of the URL in your web browser's address area. RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works – such as Blog entries news headlines audio and video – in a standardized Uniform Resource Locator is an URI which also specifies where the identified resource is available and the protocol for retrieving it
Changing the &num=20 part of the URL to &num=100 shows 100 results in the RSS feed instead of 20.
External embedding of Google Video files
Google Video allows select videos to be remotely embedded on other websites and provides the necessary HTML code alongside the media, similar to YouTube. HTML, an initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant Markup language for Web pages It provides a means to describe the structure YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload view and share Video clips YouTube was created in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees This allows for websites to host large amounts of video remotely on Google Video without running into bandwidth or storage capacity issues.
Uploading videos
Users may choose to upload videos either through the Google Video website [1] (limited to 100MB per file); or alternatively through the Google Video Uploader, available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Google Video is a free video sharing website and also a video service from Google that allows anyone to upload Video Clips to Google's web Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Mac OS X (mæk oʊ ɛs tɛn is a line of computer Operating systems developed marketed and sold by Apple Inc, the latest of which is pre-loaded on all currently Linux (commonly pronounced ˈlɪnəks Major producers with a thousand or more hours of video can apply for Google's Premium Program. [10]
While the Video Uploader application is available as three separate downloads, the Linux version is written in Java, a cross-platform programming language, and will therefore also work on other operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, without modifications, providing that the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is installed. Linux (commonly pronounced ˈlɪnəks In computing cross-platform (also known as multi-platform) is a term used to refer to Computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. A Java Virtual Machine ( JVM) is a set of computer software programs and data structures which use a Virtual machine Also worthy of note is the fact that this Java executable (. jar) file is a standalone application that does not require installation. Consequently, it can be run from removable media such as USB flash drives, CD-ROMs, or network storage. CD-ROM (an initialism of "Compact Disc Read-Only Memory " is a pre-pressed Compact Disc that contains data accessible to but not writable This allows users to upload video even if the computer terminal on which they are working will not allow them to install programs, such as a public library computer.
YouTube does report the total number of video views for each user, however, which Google Video does not. Although there is no option to download videos on YouTube itself, some download manager, such as orbit downloader,Moyea FLV Downloader allow the video to be downloaded as an FLV file, by simply copying the URL address of the video page and paste it in download Task dialog box
Market adoption
Despite availability of downloading in multiple formats, being less restrictive on video uploads, and Google being tremendously well-known, Google Video had only a minor share from the online video market. YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload view and share Video clips YouTube was created in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees Orbit Downloader is a free graphical Download manager for the Microsoft Windows Operating system. Flash Video is the name of a File format used to deliver Video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player (initially produced According to one poll, Google Video has about 8%, while YouTube has about 27%[11] Users who have posted videos to both sites may have noted an increase in YouTube traffic, and a decline in Google Video share.
Availability of service
While initially only available in the United States, over time Google Video has become available to users in more countries and can now be accessed from many other countries, including the United Kingdom, France, Germany, India and Japan. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics.
Regardless of general availability, content providers are given the opportunity to limit access to video files to only users from certain countries of residence. However, methods of circumventing geographical filtering exist.
International
Google Video has been localized for several countries:
Criticisms
Google Video has little organization of content and no noticeable pricing scheme. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Australian English ( AuE, AusE, en-AU) is the form of the English language used in Australia. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page Canadian English ( CanE, en-CA) is the variety of English used in Canada. Talk People's Republic of China) PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA ARTICLE GUIDELINES This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Italian ( or lingua italiana) is a Romance language spoken by about 63 million people as a First language, primarily in Italy. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands Dutch ( is a West Germanic language spoken by around 24 million people 22 million of which are from the Netherlands, Belgium and Suriname Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland Polish ( język polski, polszczyzna) is the Official language of Poland. Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located British English or UK English ( BrE, BE, en-GB) is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the "The world " is a proper noun for the planet Earth envisioned from an Anthropocentric or Human Worldview, as a place The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Phonology North American English regional phonology In many ways compared to English English, North American English is conservative in its Phonology. [12][13] However, pay content (available currently in the United States only) is arranged in a few categories. A video ranking in the form of a Top 100 has been introduced and the official Google Video Blog features "Google Picks" (videos considered noteworthy by Google) on a regular basis. "Google Picks" are currently also available via the Google Video homepage.
The strategy for Google Video has shifted dramatically from an initial focus on digitizing offline content, akin to Google BookSearch, to then later focusing on fee-based downloads akin to iTunes, to then later focusing on social networking features akin to YouTube. Despite constant product development and business development churn, Google Video had never attained market leadership in the online video space at the time when Google acquired YouTube.
While the lack of a fixed pricing scheme may be perceived as confusing by a number of users, it does offer content providers a wider scope in terms of individual pricing. Whether this pricing concept will be accepted and retained beyond beta remains to be seen.
There has also been criticism regarding varying standards used by Google on evaluating the content of each video for suitability. For example, Google might accept a video featuring graphic violence and profanity, but reject a milder one, with no apparent means of objective analysis.
The video uploading tool also receives various complaints, due to its "Uploading failed" error message which seems to appear in random cases without any explanation why the upload was not successful. This message sometimes also appears when the upload was successful which can be problematic as the same video may be uploaded again. Google has not yet addressed this issue. [14]
Additional criticism of Google Video has been on a lack of end user tools to add tables of content and chapters to the videos, which make longer format videos easier to annotate, view, navigate and understand.
See also
- Comparison of video services
- Dailymotion
- GoFish
- Google search
- MSN Soapbox
- TV Links
- Videosift
- vMix
- Youare.tv
- Truveo
References
- ^ Google buys YouTube for $1.65 billion
- ^ National Archives and Google Launch Pilot Project (...) (NARA press release, published on 2006-02-24)
- ^ Cory Doctorow, "Google Video robs customers of the videos they "own". Dailymotion is a Video hosting service Website, based in Paris, France. GoFish ( OTCBB: GOFH is a free video sharing Website, headquartered in San Francisco, California, allowing visitors Google search is a Web search engine owned by Google Inc, and it is the most used search engine on the Web. Soapbox on MSN Video is a service from Microsoft via its MSN portal VideoSift is a "video aggregator" designed to showcase unique and interesting videos the name of the site being a direct allusion to the metaphor of sifting Wheat VMIX is a software and service provider for organizations to deliver video rich media user-generated content and interactive community features to their online audiences Truveo is a search engine for Web video operated by Truveo Inc The United States National Archives and Records Administration ( NARA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government charged Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 303 - Galerius, Roman Emperor, publishes his edict that begins the persecution of Christians in his portion of the Cory Doctorow (born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian Blogger Journalist and Science fiction author who serves as co-editor " boingboing.net 2007-08-10. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 612 BC - Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire
- ^ John C. Dvorak, "Google Pulls Plug, Everyone Misses Point". John Charles Dvorak (born 1952 in Los Angeles, California) is an American Columnist and broadcaster in the areas of Technology PC Magazine (online). 2007-08-14. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1183 - Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures
- ^ New Feature: Link within a Video, Official Google Video Blog, July 19, 2006
- ^ Copyrights for Google Video Player, noting the inclusion of several open source libraries
- ^ a b Removing the "goog" list from a Google Video file (tutorial video)
- ^ a b Comprehensive FAQ related to video downloads
- ^ À propos des flux - Google Video
- ^ Google Video
- ^ Google Video, YouTube and MySpace Vids: An Update, August 16, 2006
- ^ Google Video: Trash Mixed With Treasure (a New York Times editorial, by David Pogue, published on 2006-01-19)
- ^ C|net Editor's Review For Google Video (Beta) (edited by James Kim, reviewed by Troy Dreier on 2006-02-07)
- ^ upload error - Vewgle
External links
- Google Video
- All The Latest And Best Videos For You Tube And Google Video
- Google Video Turns Into Video Search Engine
- Google Video Ends Paid Video Service
- Google Video Adds Video Alert
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