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I came across this article below by Wolfgang Gruener and I want to say this could be really really spectacular for video related sites, ie .TV As it stands Google's engines for searches are separated for example Google has a separate engine to search video. The new Universal Search will search video, books, etc as well all at once. Why would they do this? Youtube of course, they bought them remember and now will drive even more traffic to it via their own search engine! Little thumbnails will show in search results as well as the normal description. My thinking is that if your site has videos they may get indexed into this as well. This will benefit us as well. How great is this!! This is by far some of the best news I have heard in months and time will tell.
Google integrates search engines
Software
By Wolfgang Gruener
Wednesday, May 16, 2007 14:46
Mountain View (CA) – Google today announced may be the most significant enhancement to the company’s core search engine in several years: Google is integrating search engines that so far have operated as separate entities into the main Google search. It also marks the first time that YouTube is closely embedded into Google search results.
Google’s “search-ology” briefing started early today as so many Google briefings, which sometimes promise more information than they actually deliver. But the company held back a big news item until the very end of the event: Google today launched a major new functionality to its search engine, called Universal Search.
Universal Search, which Google said has been in the making for the past two years, combines searches across the regular search engine, books, local, images, news and videos. The transition from the old, standalone main Google search to an integrated search results in a very subtle visual change on the search results page – in fact, in most cases users will have to look very closely to notice Universal Search at all. However, when in full swing, searches run through the main Google engine will return, for example, maps and images of hotels, videos about historic events and how-to topics, or news items about people of current interest.
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http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/32066/140/
Example of Google Universal Search: A video result is displayed in the results page.
Google claims that it was able to apply an enhanced page ranking system across all different media and list the most relevant search results on the top of the page – where readers are most likely scan results for the information they are looking for.
Company representatives said that Universal Search required a whole new infrastructure for search, keeping more than 100 engineers busy over a period of more than two years. The company declined to provide details how much more computational power Universal Search requires. Udi Manber, vice president of engineering said that the change “obviously suggests than running ten queries instead of one results in about ten times then cost.” In reality, “it is much closer to one,” he said.
Universal Search is the first time that we see YouTube to be tightly integrated in Google. Google videos and YouTube videos will play right out of the search results page; videos found on other websites will not play in Google and Google will drive traffic to those sites instead. According to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, the integration of YouTube into Google will not only show the entertainment value of the video site, but highlight the research value, which he described as “underappreciated” today. He hopes that especially how-to videos will improve the search results offered by Google.
Universal Search is going online sometime today and should be available everywhere on the globe sometime tomorrow.
Google integrates search engines
Software
By Wolfgang Gruener
Wednesday, May 16, 2007 14:46
Mountain View (CA) – Google today announced may be the most significant enhancement to the company’s core search engine in several years: Google is integrating search engines that so far have operated as separate entities into the main Google search. It also marks the first time that YouTube is closely embedded into Google search results.
Google’s “search-ology” briefing started early today as so many Google briefings, which sometimes promise more information than they actually deliver. But the company held back a big news item until the very end of the event: Google today launched a major new functionality to its search engine, called Universal Search.
Universal Search, which Google said has been in the making for the past two years, combines searches across the regular search engine, books, local, images, news and videos. The transition from the old, standalone main Google search to an integrated search results in a very subtle visual change on the search results page – in fact, in most cases users will have to look very closely to notice Universal Search at all. However, when in full swing, searches run through the main Google engine will return, for example, maps and images of hotels, videos about historic events and how-to topics, or news items about people of current interest.
Image
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/32066/140/
Example of Google Universal Search: A video result is displayed in the results page.
Google claims that it was able to apply an enhanced page ranking system across all different media and list the most relevant search results on the top of the page – where readers are most likely scan results for the information they are looking for.
Company representatives said that Universal Search required a whole new infrastructure for search, keeping more than 100 engineers busy over a period of more than two years. The company declined to provide details how much more computational power Universal Search requires. Udi Manber, vice president of engineering said that the change “obviously suggests than running ten queries instead of one results in about ten times then cost.” In reality, “it is much closer to one,” he said.
Universal Search is the first time that we see YouTube to be tightly integrated in Google. Google videos and YouTube videos will play right out of the search results page; videos found on other websites will not play in Google and Google will drive traffic to those sites instead. According to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, the integration of YouTube into Google will not only show the entertainment value of the video site, but highlight the research value, which he described as “underappreciated” today. He hopes that especially how-to videos will improve the search results offered by Google.
Universal Search is going online sometime today and should be available everywhere on the globe sometime tomorrow.
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