You may either love Google or not, there is no other option. As for December 31, 2008 the corporation has 20,222 employees and the revenue is US$ 21.796 Billion. Google’s most popular service YouTube is in favour even with White House. Or it Was?

President’s weekly address has become tradition since first being used by Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930’s. And today it’s not the content that is important, but the way of delivering the message. As well as the radio, the President’s weekly addresses were to be filmed and uploaded to YouTube first. This had dual benefits for both the White House and Google, showing a President willing to adopt new technologies, and helping YouTube gain more traffic.

But recently, responding to complaints by privacy activists, the White House has quietly abandoned YouTube as the provider of the embedded videos on the president’s official home page and the latest video address was released using a Flash-based video solution by Akamai’s content delivery network.

Ironically, the decision by the White House comes days after YouTube began to roll out new policies to better protect the privacy of visitors who view videos embedded into federal government Web sites. The move by YouTube may prove to be too little, too late.

The White House is still posting copies of the videos to its official YouTube channel. However, the president no longer provides free advertising to YouTube by embedding those videos on a taxpayer-funded site.

So, despite the recent report that the White House has denied any change in online video policy, the White House spokesperson admitted using an in-house flash based solution for the latest of the president’s weekly video messages, he said the White House is just “experimenting” with different solutions.

Anyway, all the previous video address’ are still hosted by YouTube. Will the White House come back to using Google’s video service or stay with Akamai’s content delivery network, that does not make use of tracking cookies that is the question.

Via CNET.