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Google Loses Its Current TV Domain

No television program for the company

By Bogdan Popa, Security and Search Engines Editor

30th of January 2007, 11:20 GMT

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Because Google already owns products and services in multiple software categories, the company is continuously trying to create new ideas and projects meant to improve our internet experience and to make our computers work much easier. One of the most efficient ideas promoted by Google's employees is that the company can improve the features of a certain product by creating interoperability or compatibility with other solutions also produced by the search giant that will add new tools to the primary service. This strategy was also implemented in many cases
such as Google Talk - Gmail, Gmail - Docs & Spreadsheets and many other solutions.

In some cases, adding interoperability between two Google programs is not the best idea because the company doesn't own some utilities that can improve certain solutions so its employees decided that it's better to make partnership with other software developers that can provide powerful features for Google's tools.

Some time ago, the company announced that it is looking for an agreement that will help Google create its own internet television with programs selected by the users and other useful utilities that allow clients to watch videos on the internet. At that time, Google said Current TV is the perfect company for its needs, making a partnership that created Google TV that was meant to be hosted on the Current domain.

Although it wasn't as popular as other Google products, Google TV was unavailable today, its website address redirecting you to a page that contains only domain adverts. It seems like the company fixed the issue but this is not the first problem with a Google domain. Recently, multiple internet users reported that Google Germany domain was not available from specific locations in the world, users being redirected to a domain for sale page.

Amanda, a user that commented the article posted on Googlified, sustained that she is an employee for Current and explained the issue: "Hello! I happen to work for Current. It's a long story, but the registrar that owns our domain allowed it to expire without contacting us. We've set things right with them, and within the next 24 hours everything should be resolved and working fine."
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