The Google Video Viewer Is Here

Download it. 1.1 megabytes, Windows 2000 or higher, Firefox 1.0 or IE 5.0 or higher. If you'd like, get the source code. Additions to the I guess all that's left is to find some cool videos. Just look for the Chris Sherman at Search Engine Watch has a nice long article on the release, with a few more details: Video clips will begin playing from the point where your search terms are found in the audio portion of the video. If your search terms appear in multiple locations, results will display thumbnail stills and snippets from those locations, as well. To watch some video programming, you'll have to pay a fee. In most cases, this fee was specified by the content owner, not Google, though Google takes a small portion of the fee to defray its costs. The exception is if Google's costs are extraordinary-say for a popular, high resolution video. In that case, Google may arbitrarily charge users a fee if you've specified zero as the price for your video or take a larger revenue share of the price to cover some of these costs. Google Video search looks at metadata encoded with the video. [Google senior product manager Peter] Chane said many videos were also submitted with transcripts and annotations that are time-coded, allowing playback to begin at the point where your search terms are located in clips. Links: source code Nathan Weinberg writes the popular InsideGoogle blog.