Hulu is ready to start its test as an online television station – well really it is launching for limited access video feeds from its partners Fox and NBC and others and providing video content for Microsoft, AOL, MySpace, Yahoo and Comcast, according to a New York Times report.
Competition for YouTube offers Google’s competitors a way to garner more traffic and possibly improve their search share, while also providing income from ads presented with the online video feeds.
The development of online television and/or the melding of the two mediums is close. How its presence will change things has yet to be determined – though Google is not letting any of these potential giant killers to get away.