Thursday, 4 December 2008

You Tube Search Box in Embedded Videos

I've just noticed that the videos I embedded from You Tube today have a search box at the top. This is new! Videos I'd embedded previously seem to be the same too.

The results that appear are You Tube video search results which you can cycle through. It's actually a bit of a better mechanic than the actual You Tube search results page in my opinion.

Here's an example of the search box, above Norwich's excellent victory over Manchester United from a few years ago. I'm definitely not still dining out on it.



Here's how the results appear, still on your site. Surely this could/should be part of Adsense? I suspect this may be the first step towards making You Tube more of a monetizable search engine.



Update: More info from TechCrunch, including how to disable the search bar in embedded You Tube videos, here.

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