Wednesday, June 13, 2007

New Features!

Today we're announcing some new features for Google Video!

* Google Video now includes crawled content from third-party sites. Previously, Google Video included videos uploaded to this service as well as YouTube. Now we're including videos from all over the web, which we've gathered using a process similar to how we generate our Web Search results. We have a lot of new videos now, and more will be added as we continue to crawl the web.

* New UI for playing back videos: now when you click on a video search result, we put the page in a frame similar to how we display Google Images results. We've moved a lot of the features you've been using, like "Related videos" and "Email this page" up to the top. You can even play some videos directly from the search results, just like when you find videos in Google's Web Search results.

* Finally, we've got a newly revamped Help Center to reflect these changes, featuring new information about the new crawled content and an improved layout.

If you'd like to share your feedback about these new features, we invite you to comment in the Google Video Help Group.