Back in January Google announced it will also be indexing YouTube videos within Google Video. Previously it just contained videos that had been uploaded to video.google.com
Then back in May Google also began indexing videos from Metacafe as well as putting video thumbnails against results from certain sites in its regular search. From that point Google has been continuing to add a variety of sites to its video index.
Google Video is Indexing Video From:
- Google video (obviously)
- Youtube
- Metacafe
- Dailymotion
- Liveleak
- Vimeo
- Yahoo
- Grouper
- Revver
- Aol
- Veoh
- Jumpcut
- Guba
- Gofish
- Myspace
- Ifilm
- Brightcove
- Stupidvideos
- Yahoo
- Atomfilms
- College Humor
- Myvideo.de
- Tvix.cn
- Ameba.jp
- Rox.com.cn
- Videotube.de
- Sevenload.com
- Hollywoodupclose.com
- Expotv.com
Google is for some reason not indexing videos from No Blip.tv, no Eyespot and no Bolt.
That’s still a big list of sites to be indexing videos from. Google Video now appears to be a true video search engine which could cause a lot of problems for video search engine start-ups like uLinkx, PureVideo, Blinkx.com and SearchForVideo.
It was a bumpy road before Google finally decided to settle doing what it does best – search.
Google Video Search Extremely Biased
The first thing you’ll notice when searching Google Video is that the results are almost always from YouTube and video.google.com. I searched for a variety of different words but all I could find was YouTube video after Google Video after YouTube video.
All these other sites are in Google Video’s index can only seem to be found if you put in something like “site:liveleak.com”.
If Google had treated its regular search engine in this manner it wouldn’t be as popular as it is today. Or maybe this is just some sort of test period for Google Video. I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
MetaCafe Not Too Happy
Google’s Video search is now much like its image search showing the results from third party sites in a frame. Google did first try to show Metacafe videos within it’s own branded player, but this quickly stopped. I don’t think Metacafe would have been to happy about that.
Now Metacafe won’t even let Google frame its site and breaks out away from the Google frame when you visit a Metacafe video.
