Google Brings Back Video & Drops Shopping From Top Navigation

Google has dropped the “Shopping” link from the main top navigation on Google.com and replaced it with a “Video” link. What is the big deal? Well, in November 2007, Google did the exact reverse. They dropped the video link for products to replace it. Then Google renamed products to shopping but that link remained at the top.

Google has now brought back the video link, which has recently dropped the top viewed, top blogged and so on features from the home page of Google Video. We know Google Video also stopped allowing uploading directly to Google Video, so one may have thought Google was lessening the value of Google Video in exchange for YouTube – but maybe not.

Here is Google’s home page with the new video link:

Here is the Google home page with the old shopping link:

Hat tip to Gary Price for letting me know about this small but yet significant change.