by David Zax, Technology Review
YouTube continues to get a facelift, this time through its app on Google TV. Google announced the YouTube app update this week, explaining that app was faster, smoother, and that it had added a feature it called “Discover,” which allows users to browse YouTube channels by categories. As updates go, it’s a relatively minor one–hardly an overhaul. But it highlights the ways in which Google is leveraging YouTube to become more of a competitor to sites like Hulu and Netflix. As I wrote back in November, when Google TV issued a significant update to its software, most of us still think of YouTube as a place to go on an ad hoc basis: you’re in the mood for a quick laugh, or a music video, or a video of cat antics. Deep in YouTube’s DNA, or at least our perception of its DNA, is that it’s a place for clips, not shows.
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