Now when you go to search for a video over at Google Video, you’ll notice a few changes when you click to view one of the video results. Google has implemented a new frame at the top of the Google Video Search, and it looks much like what you would see when you do a Google Image Search.
You’ll have the option to collapse the frame, or even remove the frame, but it’ll be there when you click to view YouTube videos, or any of the other third-party sites like MySpace, Daily Motion, AOL etc. Within the frame you’ll get a list of related videos and information about the video like how long it is, and the option to rate it. You can also email the page to a contact. Below the frame you’ll find the video in its original context.
MetaCafe clearly didn’t want the Google Frame up at the top because they’ve used some JavaScript to redirect users to their site. Although, it’s probably set up to redirect for any other site that tries to put a frame around it. Just do a search and click on any MetaCafe result, you’ll see what I mean.
It appears as though Google finally has a clear direction of where they’re headed, and that’s to turn Google Video primarily into a Video Search Engine. It makes sense, they do search well, so why not focus their video efforts on doing just that? I don’t think they’ve really known exactly where they were headed with this one all along, they’ve kinda been flying by the seat of their pants.
New YouTube Layout
In related news, YouTube has a new beta version for the layout of their site. Anytime you view a video, you’ll see “Try out the New (beta) version of this page!” in a yellow box right above the box with the code to embed the video. The changes aren’t TOO drastic and if you don’t like it, you’re given the option to return the previous layout. You can also get this layout by adding &v3 at the end of any YouTube URL.
Source: Google Operating System
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I have mixed feelings about Google including other “Video” results such as YouTube into the video search. I haven’t played around with it enough to find out if there’s a way to only search in Google Video results rather than the entire internet, but I believe they should have the option.
If you go into the advanced video search options you actually can choose a specific domain to search, so you could do just google videos or even just youtube if you wanted. Just type in whatever domain you want.
I’ve had mixed feelings about YouTube being in the results as well. While it is a better site, that doesn’t necessarily mean that the content is better. Not only that, but the YouTube results normally take over the search results…there are very few Google video results when compared to the amount of YouTube ones.