Google Cameos – Cameos on Google, on the Play Store – is not exactly the most famous of the services of the Mountain View giant, but it is certainly the closest to the end: Big G is already communicating that it will close its doors very soon, a little more two years after its launch and without ever having taken root among users.
Have you ever looked for some famous person and came across a handful of videos on their tab in Search under the title “Top questions answered”? Well, the videos in question all come from the aforementioned service: Cameos on Google caters exclusively to celebrities and other high-profile personalities and gives them an easy way to record videos answering the most common questions about themselves and view them. appear at the top of Google search results.
Like any other service created and then killed by Big G, even in this case it is not worth pretending to be surprised: Google does these things and not so rarely. As you can see from the image below, the search engine giant is already emailing celebrities and creators who have previously registered Cameos on Google that starting February 17, 2022, it will no longer be possible to do so. That’s not all, on the contrary: from the same date, all previously recorded and published videos will no longer be shown in the search results.
Google describes the service as a pilot open only to those who have received the relative invitation thanks to which the company has learned a lot, even if frankly two years seems a bit long for a pilot project. Now Big G says it wants to devote its energy to other content creation projects.
To be honest, hardly anyone will mourn this loss, as the service had remained limited and the same since its inception and even the celebrities who came aboard were few. Are you curious to try Cameos on Google before it disappears? You can find it on the Google Play Store by clicking on the badge below.
Cameos on Google going away pic.twitter.com/N9Fu5hshp0
— Barry Schwartz (@rustybrick) January 21, 2022
If, on the other hand, you are a celebrity and you don’t want to lose previously recorded videos, you can use Google Takeout, you have until March 17, 2022, to download them, otherwise, you will lose them permanently.