May 17th, 2007
Video sharing websites: Google "has them all"
During Google’s Searchology event yesterday, Marissa Mayer told us the new universal search update will show you richer results from all video sharing websites — something that I’m sure people will find interesting. Today, the blogosphere began noticing this update through Google Video as they found results from MetaCafe mixed in with Google Video and YouTube.
There was a question during the conference about how broadly videos will be searchable going forward. Marissa’s answer was basically “if we can crawl it, you will be able to search it”. Does that mean results will simply be shown as a text link? Not necessarily — Marissa says that based on a list of 5 or 6 popular video hosting sites, they will also display thumbnails alongside the video’s meta information. She says “We have them all”.
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