YouTube makes its debut appearance in Google News
By Mark O’Neill
Search Engine Watch is reporting that YouTube videos are starting to appear in Google News listings.
Sure enough, video links are starting to pop up in selected search results. Just look for the word “video” next to a “+” symbol.
At the moment, it doesn’t appear to be so wide-spread, so it looks as if Google is only experimenting in their online sandbox, to gauge user reaction.
Let’s hope the use of YouTube videos in Google News becomes more wide-spread. It’s good to see Google finally using one of its biggest acquisitions for more than karoke videos and dancing cats. Inserting videos into news results, especially breaking news, could really revolutionize the way we look upon getting our news fix online.
If anyone can find other Google news sources with video links, let us know in the comments. It would be interesting to find out the full extent of Google’s experiment.
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Hey Mark
Awesome timing. I was just thinking about it like an hour ago. I think Google News and Youtube integration is an awesome but at the same time very challenging project. The thing is, for such integration to occur, Google needs a proper video search algorithm. A lot better than a mere tagging-based approach which you can see on Youtube or Google Video. So, I am quite curious how this integration will work.
my guess is we’ll see some human features to help the algo at first, things like - Report this video for inaccuracy.