Google Video Now Displays Results From Every Site

In the last few months Google has been constantly re-vamping and modifying their Video Search. With the increase in popularity of video on the Internet it is no surprise why.

About 6 months back Google used to display results that only would list video which had been uploaded with Google. This is a bit of an interesting stance to take on video and can be somewhat limiting as you'll soon find out. Fortunately, Google is usually pretty wise about these types of things and later decided to make the $1.65 billion acquisition of YouTube.

About a month after this purchase Google made the move of including both Google and YouTube videos in the Google Video search results. This made Google Video search the best video search as it now had about 2/3 of the total online video market showing up in their search results.

However, Google video still had the fundamental flaw of the Internet which is not maintaining their independence of everything. They were still too tied into only showing their side of the Internet and not the WHOLE Internet as their regular web search does.

As you can see, this is a very important aspect of Google maintaining on top and as of about a month ago Google finally made the move of including videos besides just that of Google and YouTube. Google is now one of the best search engines for video as you will find that it includes video from sites outside of just its network. It is common to find videos from MetaCafe, LiveVideo and other popular video sharing sites.

This is a very smart move for Google as it continues to make the user experience much better as they are now able to get connected to information easier and faster than ever. I would suspect Google to have many more tricks up their sleeves with video search in the very near future as this is an extremely large market for them.

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