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Hopefully by now you've had some time to play around with our different views for search results and find the one that best suits you. For fans of grid view, we've added a new feature to make it easier to find what you're looking for. Now, when you're viewing search results in grid view you can roll over the video image for more information about the video. By moving your mouse over a video listed in the results, you'll be able to see multiple thumbnails of the video as well as the video description. This will give you a more representative idea of what each video is about as you browse your search results.  We've also restored some popular features. For those of you who upload videos to the site, you'll be happy to hear that our Community features (comments and ratings) and Advanced options settings (ability to restrict downloading as well as embedding and regional restrictions) are back. To get these updates delivered right to you, click on the  icon (on the blog sidebar) to add Google Video blog updates to your Google homepage or Google Reader. Michael Cohen, Product Manager
As we've mentioned before, the Google Video team wants to make it possible for you to search every video on the web. This is a tall order, and we're constantly working to make sure we have the latest and greatest videos. Ever wondered how we actually discover all the videos that make it into video search? While we receive a small percentage of our videos from user uploads, we get the vast majority of them by crawling the web. We've gotten pretty good at this over the past several years, but of course it's helpful when webmasters tell us exactly where to look to find their videos. This is where a protocol called Video Sitemaps (an extension of the Sitemap Protocol) comes in. Video Sitemaps allow webmasters to give us links directly to their videos and provide valuable descriptive information such as a video's title, description, and length. We can then target our crawlers at these videos and pull them into the Google Video index, allowing them to show up in Google Video searches as well as searches on Google.com. Some key information provided by a sitemap includes:
 Today, by popular demand, we are making TV view the default search result view for Google Video. If you haven't seen it yet, TV view is a new interface that lets you browse search results, watch videos, and check out related videos -- all on the same page. Here's what it looks like:  Videos that we are able to embed will play directly in the TV view player when you click on them. These include almost all Google- and YouTube-hosted videos, as well as videos from many other sites such as metacafe.com, crackle.com, and hundreds of others. Videos that cannot be embedded will display a thumbnail or filmstrip that links to the page where the video can be played. If you're a webmaster and would like your videos to be embeddable in TV view, check out our Video Sitemaps Help Center. In addition to playing the video, clicking on a search result will reload the list of related videos on the right hand side of the page. Next time you're watching a video, try flipping through the related videos; you might find something even better that what you originally searched for! Just like search results, most related videos can be played directly in the TV view player. We hope you enjoy this new search experience. Of course, if you prefer either list or grid view to TV view, you can switch your view preference at any time by clicking on one of the view icons at the top of the page:   As part of our mission, we on the Google Video team want you to be able to search, browse and discover videos from across the web. More than a year ago, we described our renewed focus on organizing all the web's video. Today, in addition to expanding Google Video's search capabilities, we have a number of new browse- and search-related features we're excited to share. Now you can choose any of three ways to view your video search-results: a traditional list view, a grid view and, for those of you who like to maximize your video-watching efficiency, a TV view, where you can watch an embedded video while continuing to view your search results next to the video for a more seamless browse and search experience. Try them out by clicking on the gray icon boxes:  You may have also noticed that we've given the Google Video homepage a bit of a facelift. We wanted to make it as easy as possible for you to find and access the web's most compelling videos, and just as before, you can see what videos people are viewing, sharing, and blogging about -- but now, with the new TV view, you can also watch many of the top videos directly on the homepage.  We'll be letting you know as we roll out new features, so keep checking back for more information about what we're up to!  I want to start off by giving my heartfelt thanks to all of who have been loyal readers of the Google Video Blog. It's been a real pleasure delivering the best of Google Video to your screens. But even though you may not be receiving your daily dose of entertainment from me, fret not! There's a plethora of footage at your fingertips on Google Video and of course on YouTube! And if blog reading is a regular habit, do check out the YouTube Blog to find out what the YT editors consider must-see.
And again, thank you for staying tuned. Here's to hours of happy viewing to you.  Warm messages from the soldiers' hearts to their loved ones. Happy Holidays everyone!
  Click here to watch "Holiday Greeting from PV2 Ernest Marshall" Deployed Service Members send Holiday Greetings to their family and friends 14 sec   Click here to watch "Holiday Greeting from SGT Amanda Soule" Deployed Service Members send Holiday Greetings to their family and friends 11 sec   Click here to watch "Holiday Greeting from SPC Damon Pickens" Deployed Service Members send Holiday Greetings to their family and friends 15 sec   Click here to watch "Holiday Greeting from SFC Shlonda Calhoun" Deployed Service Members send Holiday Greetings to their family and friends 22 sec   Click here to watch "Holiday Greeting from SGT Harvey Smith" Deployed Service Members send Holiday Greetings to their family and friends 14 sec   Click here to watch "Holiday Greeting from SPC Raymond Rinehart" Deployed Service Members send Holiday Greetings to their family and friends 12 sec Please click here for more Holiday Greetings!  8 videos to celebrate the 8 days of Hanukkah!
  Click here to watch "funny chanukah - hanukkah video" A documentary featuring puppets sharing their feelings about chanukah. http://www.chanukah.org   2 min 14 sec  Click here to watch "THE LEEVEES ROCKING HANUKKAH" The Leevees are getting ready to rock Hanukkah with an original album of songs about about a forgotten musical holiday, Hanukkah. Keywords:Adam Gardner, Dave Schneider, The Zambonis, Guster 2 min 33 sec  Click here to watch "Zola Levitt Presents: The Feast of Lights, p1: The Story of Hanukkah" Dr. Jeffrey Seif sets up the story of Hanukkah and the abominable Antiochus Epiphanes; wherein, the Syrian dictator overthrew Jerusalem and desecrated the Holy Temple. Although many throughout history have sought to destroy God's chosen people, Jeff reassures us that, "He who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep." Also, we learn about harvesting the olive and its importance to the golden Menorah, which resided in the Holy Place. 10 min 2 sec  Click here to watch "Zola Levitt Presents: The Feast of Lights, p2: "You Are the Light of the World"" Jeff interviews Rabbi Martin J. Waldman about the increase of Messianic Jews in the world today, and we see a timely interview with Zola and Messianic believer Simcha Davidov. 28 min 28 sec  Click here to watch "Zola Levitt Presents: The Feast of Lights, p3: The Feast of Dedication" Discover the Feast of Dedication as observed by Jesus in the Bible, and don't miss a heartfelt interview where Zola and Jean Rosenberg look at the celebration of Hanukkah in the home today 28 min 30 sec  Click here to watch "Hanukkah Song" Daily Dancer dancing to Hanukkah Song by Adam Sandler.  1 min 40 sec  Click here to watch "I_Wish_Every_Day-lg.mov" Hoffman York (an Advertising Agency in Milwaukee) has created an original song and animation for a heart-warming Christmas/Hanukkah/Holiday greeting! 3 min 24 sec  Click here to watch "Waterloo Voca Mocha - Hanukkah! Hanukkah!" 1 min 46 sec Share these videos with your friends using the "Send link to a friend" feature! Learn how here!  The Comedy Time Network began in 1994. Today, it's become a leader in original comedy content created especially for wireless handsets. Comedy Time is available on Sprint, Cingular and Amp'd and is distributed worldwide -- so you can laugh wherever you are.
Today's Highlighted Videos   Click here to watch "Saleem Muhamed - Blind Advice" Saleem Muhamed got some hearty advice from an old blind neighbor. 2 min 46 sec  Click here to watch "Tim O'Rourke - Full Set" Tim O'Rourke wouldn't make the best babysitter. 6 min 37 sec  Click here to watch "Turae - Full Set" Before getting into comedy, Turae had some really bad jobs. 10 min 2 sec  Click here to watch "Maz Jabroni - Full Set" Maz Jabroni talks about being an Iranian-American. 12 min 45 secShare these videos with your friends using the "Send link to a friend" feature! Learn how here!  Here at Google Video, we like footage of dogs acting goofy as much as the next aggregators of online videos -- and if the canine clips in question also involve doggie antlers, little red Santa outfits, and the promotion of a feel-good Google product launch, well, all the better.
 XOS Technologies brings you, the fans, sports content from more than 750 teams in the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, and more. Whether you're a football fanatic or a puck bunny - you'll find it here on Google Video.
   Click here to watch "Basketball: Arkansas vs. Xavier" Hogs take to the hardcourt to battle Xavier. 2 hr 10 min 30 sec  Click here to watch "Volleyball: Oklahoma vs.Texas" Watch as the Sooners take on Texas in volleyball. 1 hr 20 min 20 secShare these videos with your friends using the "Send link to a friend" feature! Learn how here!  I was going to try and impress you with my pigskin trivia *cough*search for football facts on Google*cough*, but I decided not to fake it and fail miserably. So, I'm just going to let these videos and the pros do all the talkin'!
Happy football season!   Click here to watch "OSU Band does Hollywood" Ohio State-Michigan 11/18/06. An incredible halftime show for the OSU band. They do music and choreography from a bunch of Hollywood movies. 7 min 7 sec  Click here to watch "Hesiman Highlights: Ian Johnson" A closeup look at Broncos' star Ian Johnson. 4 min 14 sec  Click here to watch "Michigan fan from his dorm" Upload your video and share your team pride with millions of football fans at: http://video.google.com/rivalry.html 43 sec Find more football fun at the Rivalry page!  Today I'm going to share a George Michael moment with you.
When my cousin and I were little kids, we'd crimp our hair, roll on our neon legwarmers, and put on our favorite jellies and scrunch socks to perform George Michael's endearing hit "Last Christmas" for our parents. I wish I had taped our little performace. If I did, it'd be uploaded faster than you can belt out "I'll give it to someone special!" Are you, your mom, your aunt, or sister a George Michael fan? If so, I've got a terrific holiday present for you. To celebrate the release of George Michael's album "Twenty Five," RCA Label Group is inviting fans from all over the world to upload their version of the classic video "Last Christmas". Every video that is submitted will go into a random draw to win George Michael merchandise! For more details, please visit http://www.rcalabelgroup.co.uk/google/us/ What is WatchMojo.com?
With more and more people turning to their computers for entertainment rather than their television sets, WatchMojo.com strives to produce original content for said people to watch. Their mission is to create informational and entertainment videos for the world wide web's growing audience. So kick back, relax, and get your mojo here. Today's Highlighted Videos   Click here to watch "Guide to Ties - The Windsor Knot" Most men have no idea what they're doing when it comes to tying a tie let alone fashion in general. This guide shows you how to tie them properly and this clip shows the classiest knot of all, The Windsor. 1 min 20 sec  Click here to watch "Guide to Belly Dancing - Part 1 Introduction" An introduction to the art of belly dancing and some of its history and definitions. 59 sec  Click here to watch "Fashion Faux-Pas for Women - Part 4" A look at some common fashion mistakes that women make, and some suggestions for remedying them. 47 sec  Click here to watch "Bartending Tips - How to make a Mountain Dew drop shot" Bartending Tips: A bartender shows you how to mix a Mountain Dew drop shot! 40 sec  Click here to watch "Guide to Drums - The Double Stroke" A drummer demonstrates how to properly execute a double stroke. 1 min 48 secShare these videos with your friends using the "Send link to a friend" feature! Learn how here!  Got the Monday blues?
Fret not! Here are my picks from the Google Video Top 100 to help you get through today. Today's Highlighted Videos  5. Click here to watch "Sneak peek at Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" From HPANA.com 3 min 50 sec    Think you have an even cooler video? Upload it!  Thanksgiving dinner has just ended - belts have been loosened, there's pumpkin pie stains on mom's white linen tablecloth, and all that tryptophan pumping through your body is making you sleepy.
What else is there left to do? Well, this is usually the time when everyone goes around the table and shares what they're thankful for. You've heard it all before: I'm thankful for my family, my dog, and Grandma's chocolate-pecan-pumpkin-pie. This year, I challenge you to think outside the box. What are you really thankful for? What could you possibly not live without? When it's my turn around the table this year, I'm going express thanks for my parents and my grandparents, for the roof over my head, and for the new TV show Heroes, but I'm also going to throw in my thanks to this neat invention called the Internet. I'm sure you've heard of it. It's something millions of us use everyday, something that has become such an integral part of our daily lives that I don't think some of us realize how dependent we are on it. Doesn't this big guy deserve some sort of recognition? So here I go - I'm thankful for the Internet. Are you? Today's Highlighted Videos   Click here to watch "Humanity Lobotomy Save the Internet" This is a mashup about net neutrality brought to you by Four Eyed Monsters. The video is an open source documentary that strives to educate you on the history and future of the Internet as well as encourage you to spread awareness regarding net neutrality. Four Eyed Monsters wants you to download this video and edit it to share your ideas on the Internet and net neutrality. Your video may be included in a feature length citizen created documentary about protecting citizen media. 10 min 24 secHere's an extra video to share with your parents and grandparents, I'm sure they'll find it a treat! Check out what they used to wear in the 50's to Thanksgiving dinner!   Click here to watch "Home Movie: Lee Thanksgiving 1957" It's that classic time when everyone knew how to dance, because it was such a part of social culture. You just don't see than anymore, so it is nice to see it in this home movie. Keep your memories safe by transferring home movies to DVD whether they are 8mm transfer to DVD 4 min 15 secShare these videos with your friends using the "Send link to a friend" feature! Learn how here!  With the 2006 U.S. elections just finished, the important issues facing Americans -- education, health care, national security, the economy and others -- demand serious attention from Republicans and Democrats alike, no matter which side winds up controlling Congress.
The New America Foundation is a Washington DC-based, non-partisan think tank that regularly brings together policy experts from across the political spectrum to tackle vital domestic and global issues. More than 170 of these New America events are now on Google Video, with new videos being added each week. A few highlights are featured below -- detailing some of the most important issues for this election and beyond:   Click here to watch "The Great Risk Shift" In The Great Risk Shift: The Assault on American Jobs, Families, Health Care, and Retirement And How You Can Fight Back, New America Fellow Jacob S. Hacker lays bare the new economic realities facing American families. 1 hr 26 min 57 sec  Click here to watch "Can the Employer Role in Health Insurance Be Preserved?" The New America Foundation and the Brookings Institution sponsored this second conversation in a series about the future of the employer-based health insurance system. Senators Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) and Gordon Smith (R-OR) discussed their perspective on how the employer system can continue to provide coverage for American workers and their families. 55 min 7 sec  Click here to watch "Closing the Achievement Gap" Gov. Tim Kaine (D-VA) presented a half-hour speech to over a hundred guests at the New America Foundation on Tuesday, July 25, 2006. Kaine described his views on the importance of early childhood education, which studies show can reduce the number of unprepared students entering kindergarten each year and reduce the number of elementary school children who fail to advance to the next grade at the end of the school year. 1 hr 18 min 25 secShare this video with your friends using the "Send link to a friend" feature! Learn how here!  Are you an aspiring music video director? Do you rock out to Good Charlotte?
Check out the new Good Charlotte Keep Your Hands Off My Video contest. Here's your chance to get behind the camera and make your version of the "Keep Your Hands Off My Girl" video. Good Charlotte will select their favorite video, feature it on GoodCharlotte.com, and send the talented auteur a signed guitar. View contest details here.  It's college football season, and one of the best parts in my view is the intense rivalry -- when we see our favorite local teams go head to head, each claiming to be the "best team in town" for another year. (And, in the case of Michigan vs. Ohio State this weekend maybe even the "best team in the country").
While the hits, fumbles, and touchdowns keep us all watching, we think -- and we hope you agree -- that some of the greatest moments in college football come from the fans. Think tailgates, reunions, painted faces, mascots and cheerleaders, where that spirit of rivalry thrives and brings us back for the next year's match. To celebrate the fans who keep the spirit alive, we've launched this rivalry page to showcase some of the best off-the-field moments in college football. So get out your mobile phone, digital camera and digital video recorder to capture the best game-day highlights and share them with millions of fans on Google Video. If you don't, it'll be the other guys who will win the title of "best fans in town" -- and that can't happen, right? And if you're headed to the game, be on the lookout -- Google Video might be coming to a stadium near you. (Not going to the game? Capture and share your best armchair quarterback or couch outbursts with millions of football fans.) -- Shaluinn Fullove, for the Google Video team   Click here to watch "OSU Football Rivalry" Michigan fan fighting with Brutus the Buckeye at the OSU vs. Northwestern Game 42 sec    Click here to watch "OSU mirror lake group jumping in" OSU footage of mirror lake and a group jumping in the lake. 28 sec Timestamps in comments are now automatically hyperlinked
Now, whenever you specify times of interest in a comment, we'll automatically hyperlink those times so that clicking on them will take a visitor directly to that spot in the video. To be hyperlinked, the time must be in h:mm:ss or m:ss format and within the actual duration of the video.  If you want to share that special moment, simply right click on the hyperlink, select "Copy link location," and then paste it into an email to a friend or post the link in your blog. New view stats detail We've added some detail to the stats available for each video. You can now see how many of yesterday's views were seen through emailed links or via the embedded Google Video player on another site. To bring some of this data to life, we've added a chart of daily views.   To salute the upcoming release of the Tenacious D movie, we’d like to invite you to watch Jack Black reflect on “the greatest band on Earth.”
 Click here to watch "Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny" Access Hollywood takes a behind-the-scenes look at Jack Black's upcoming "D" movie. 2 min  In honor of Veterans' Day, we're highlighting this really cool clip from the film Speed and Angels in which director Peyton Wilson takes you into the exhilarating world of U.S. Navy fighter pilots. Children often dream big about what they want to do when they grow up. The movie follows two young naval officers fighting to pursue their dream of becoming fighter pilots - and then fighting to stay alive as they deploy to Iraq.
On a related note, did you know that what we call Veterans' Day was originally called "Armistice Day" - because it's the anniversary of the agreement ending World War I? All of the major hostilities of that conflict were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918 when the Germans signed an armistice. (See, the Google Video Blog can be educational as well as entertaining.) Today's Highlighted Video We've just rolled out several search improvements to help you find the videos you want to see quickly and easily. Let's say you're searching for mentos and diet coke videos and you want to see those with the highest ratings. Just select "sort by rating" from the drop down menu, and presto! - now the results are sorted so you can easily see the highest rated videos from your search. When ranking the results by rating, we take into account a bunch of different factors such as relevance to your query, rating of the video, popularity and more.
 Another new search improvement is the ability to search within a label. Let's say you want to find all the videos of Zidane labeled as [soccer] . No problem! Search for [label: soccer zidane], and we'll show you all the Zidane videos that also have the label "soccer". Now get going on your must-see list! - Varun Kacholia, Software Engineer  Wanna see a recent National Hockey League game you missed? How about reliving a classic like Game 7 of the 1994 Stanley Cup Final between the New York Rangers and Vancouver Canucks? To celebrate the NHL's 89th season, starting today fans around the world will be able to watch in-season full-length games on Google Video. Besides watching games, you can also post and view your own content at the same place. So even if you can't make it to the arena to see pucks flying around at 100 mph, Google Video can be your place for fast-paced NHL action. Be careful out there!  Happy Halloween! Today we're highlighting the finalists in the Google Video Horror Show. Not sure which will scare you most, but we hope one of these videos will put you in the Halloween mood. The following videos were hand-picked by you and rated as the scariest videos on Google Video.
Thank you for participating in the Google Video Horror Show and have a safe Halloween!   Click here to watch "Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror Teaser" Welcome to the Hood of Horror, a place where revenge is a dish served cold…in a 40oz. The Hound of Hell (Snoop Dogg) is your guide through three terrifying tales from this nefarious neighborhood... 1 min 14 sec Click here to watch "92" A surreal commission for the Hayward Gallery's 'Undercover Surrealism' exhibition from director Dominic Hailstone. 31 sec  Click here to watch "Happy Tree Friends - Remains to Be Seen" It's Halloween... Happy Tree Friends style. 3 min 55 sec Click here to watch "CLASSIC HORROR TRAILERS RARE FREE LIMITED TIME ONLY" Aging Baby-Boomer Ira H. Gallen has spent over 30 years collecting and restoring this collection from 16mm & 35mm Celluloid Film, and Kinescopes to Video tape, with the help of Museum of Television and Radio in New York. 13 min 50 secShare these videos with your friends using the "Send link to a friend" feature! Learn how here!  |
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