I'm sorry to throw cold water on what I think is a very cool announcement (I'm a big fan of on-demand video content), but where the hell is Google Video marketplace? It is supposed to appear on the Google Video site, which as of this post remains unchanged. This is impossibly lame. Normally, when companies (let's take Apple as an example) announce a new product the damn thing is there. If not, you're just wasting everybody's time--not by announcing it, but by driving millions of people to a site that's not ready. Google's emailed press release remarked that Video Marketplace would be available "soon," which is a bizarrely vague prediction. Now it's the next day--the statue of limitations on "soon" has expired.

Note to Google: You've just taken the wind out of your own sails.