So apparently YouTube was down this morning and no one knows why. Google and YouTube ain't talkin'. I had no clue until I finally connected myself to the interwebs this afternoon and had my twitter a flutter and blog posts abound about the tragedy. It's back now, but does this worldwide outage represent something to the effect that Google is in fact human, makes mistakes, and might not be the best out there on everything?

Don't get me wrong. I love the Google. I use Google for most everything (except reader, for some reason could never get into that. I like bloglines instead.) However, as Mashable pointed out, YouTube was down, people were panicking, but there are alternatives out there people. In fact, when it comes to online video quality, YouTube is far behind. I prefer Blip.tv for a good video player and nothing beats UStream.tv for livestreaming. Plus Blip and UStream have no time restraints, which I also love.

This event may just end up as a small little blip in the empire that is YouTube and Google. But I think it's a sign that eventually people are going to realize the Google giant has flaws too and hasn't been improving as fast as everyone else. Especially on the online video front. And they may start to go look elsewhere. Just like what is happening to Microsoft with more and more people cozying up to their shiny new macs.