Happy Halloween! Here are the logos from the search community including Google, Yahoo, Bing, AOL, Ask, Dogpile, and so many more. For the past years logos, see 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 and 2004 logos. Here are 2009's Halloween logos: Google...
Happy Halloween! Here are the logos from the search community including Google, Yahoo, Bing, AOL, Ask, Dogpile, and so many more. For the past years logos, see 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 and 2004 logos. Here are 2009's Halloween logos: Google...
You can now search through the comments left on all public YouTube videos at youtube.com/comment_search.This is a new feature launched recently on YouTube TestTube. Liz from YouTube support announced it in a YouTube Help thread. Many are excited about this...
I am a big YouTube user for both professional and personal use. When it comes to personal use, I want to make my videos private and share them with friends and family. The issue was that you had to get...
Liz from YouTube support posted a thread at the YouTube Help forum confirming a wide spread bug with commenting on YouTube videos. Liz explained the bug as follows: We've seen many of you report that you're having trouble with comments:...
One of the worst parts of uploading to YouTube, especially large and long HD quality videos, is waiting for YouTube to finish processing the video so people can watch it. I normally create a 15 minute or so video, in...
The Google Base Blog announced that Google Base data feeds now support a new YouTube attribute that allows you to define if the product has a video demo on YouTube. The example given is a product search for Nikon d90....
On Friday, Liz (Googler) at the YouTube support forum posted a thread at the YouTube Help forums about why some videos get stuck at the 300 view mark. Liz explained that when some videos become popular very fast, YouTube takes...
It appears that some time over the weekend, YouTube began experimenting with 3D videos. I spotted a thread at the YouTube Help forum about this, where Googler Pete said he developed this in his 20% time. He said he is...
40 years-ago today, on July 20, 1969, the United States's Apollo 11 mission, successfully landed a man on the moon. Some search engines, such as Microsoft's Bing and Google's YouTube have special logos for the day. Surprisingly, Google, Yahoo and...
I recently signed up to enable YouTube revenue sharing on my search videos. It was part so that I can try to get my YouTube videos into Google News (still working on that). One thing I noticed was that while...
Yesterday, if you viewed a video on YouTube in HD format, it would display in a large format. It would basically move down all the content on the right of the video and increase the video size to the full...
The Google News Blog is asking Google News publications to sign up for the YouTube Partner Program in order to get your videos more exposure. If you use Google News, you would have noticed that they are playing up YouTube...
If you are a maven at YouTube and videos in the mobile space, you might be interested in a new Google Mobile Help thread. Googler, Robin, said he and Google is looking for mobile YouTube experts to make help videos...
A HighRankings Forum thread asks if one should host videos on their own server or host them on YouTube. I do a lot of videos here in my Search Buzz Video Recaps, which are weekly digests of what we covered...
A week ago today, we reported how AdSense publishers were not happy with video unit payouts. In fact, they were extremely upset with how little the earnings were for displaying rich media on their sites. Friday, Google announced that they...
There are two threads at Google AdSense Help discussions with AdSense publishers who are simply not happy with the earnings they have been reported to receive from their YouTube content. Let me quote you some upset publishers: My revenue is...
YouTube has added new statistics to YouTube Insights, the YouTube video analytics. I wrote about YouTube Insights when it first launched a year ago. Today, they added features to tell you how engaged your viewers are, i.e. do they like...
Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone! The mandatory line, please drink responsibly! I wanted to share with you the logos from around our industry celebrating the day. We have logos from Google, Yahoo, Microsoft's Live.com, AOL, Ask.com, DogPile, YouTube and others!...
Some of you may have seen the post at TechCrunch which has a screen capture of Google Translate translating the name "Vimeo" into YouTube. Vimeo is a popular competitor to YouTube and as you can imagine, Vimeo's owners and fans...
Happy Valentines Day everyone! Here are the logos from the various search engines: Google had two logos, depending on where in the world you were: Yahoo's animated logo: AOL's animated logo: Live.com's Theme: Ask.com's Theme: DogPile's logo: YouTube's logo: Cre8asite...
Today is Groundhog day and some search engines have a special logo for the day. While some are still sporting Super Bowl 43 themes, from one of the best Super Bowls ever played. Let's start with AOL's flash logo for...
In mid November I wrote about YouTube Sponsored Ads but back then it wasn't working for me. I recently had the opportunity to get a client up and running with YouTube ads, so I figured I walk you through the...
Google Blogoscoped reported that Google has finally introduced YouTube videos into Google Maps as an additional layer. You can now view videos, in addition to the photos or wikipedia layers in Google Maps. Here is a screen capture of the...
While Google's financial future is uncertain lately (or they've been conveying it by laying off their contractors or cancelling holiday gifts out of an "inappropriate gesture"), it seems that some content producers are making all the money. I suppose those...
This week, viewers on YouTube noticed that videos are now being offered in HD 16:9 widescreen format. This has also been announced on YouTube's blog, and it looks like it's here to stay. Most of us are looking for a...
So, as you know, I am a bit YouTuber. Okay, I am not, but I do have a YouTube channel with weekly videos on search news, that some of you watch, some of you listen to and some of you...
How many of you have received a link to a lengthy video with the following note: "It gets good at 6:15."? My guess is that you've seen that before and you are not a fan of having to go to...
Loren Baker of Search Engine Journal teamed up with two great guys, Jordan Kasteler and David Snyder of Search and Social to launch IMBroadcast, which is advertised as the "first ever UGC video site dedicated to the Internet Marketing industry."...
I have a personal pet peeve with YouTube. Way too often, when I try watching a YouTube video, it simply won't play. The message I get is "We're sorry, this video is no longer available." The thing is, the video...
If you are browsing videos on YouTube and spot affiliate links to Amazon or iTunes under the movie frame, don't be surprised - it is part of Google's new monetization efforts for YouTube. I wrote about this at Search Engine...
Ever wonder how exactly Google/YouTube counts a "view" in YouTube? Is it each time a video page in YouTube is opened? Is it each time a video is played? Does "Autoplaybacks" count? YouTube Anna, an official YouTube representative has confirmed...
The YouTube Blog announced that they have launched a YouTube support forum at Google Groups. The forum can be found at groups.google.com/group/youtube-help. As you know, we track forums for new discoveries, insights and hot topics. So we will be adding...
Earlier this month, we reported that Viacom ordered Google to turn over YouTube records. Google will now have to give Viacom the records, but in a compromise, without data that will identify users, according to BBC News. Many people are...
A recent ruling has people reeling about how a judge recently ordered YouTube to hand over its history to Viacom. All of the sudden, your privacy is not being honored. To summarize the recent story, Wired says that "Google will...
The other day, I mocked Matt Cutts, by editing a video that caught him saying, "I watch porn all day." I did the video editing while sitting in the session, so the editing is subpar, to say the least. How...
Talk about theories! A WebmasterWorld thread has a theory that was posted by senior member, travelin cat, who noticed that his top ranking pages tend to have related YouTube video's embedded on them. The YouTube videos are not his videos,...
The Google News Blog has announced that it is now incorporating YouTube videos with Google News results. As the blog post explains, "You'll see the prefix "Video" next to story titles, and clicking on these video links will open a...
YouTube and Google both announced YouTube Insights, a new way to see more detailed statistics on your YouTube videos. I did a detailed post at Search Engine Land on the topic. If you have YouTube videos, you can see the...
I am not sure why there isn't more discussion around this topic, but yesterday Google's YouTube announced new APIs to allow you to add YouTube's features, content and more to your own site. So let's say you wanted to create...
We reported on the YouTube partner program in the US in October. Now the program has extended to UK users. UK users can access the Partner Programme page to sign up. How does it work? The difference with this and...
We reported an issue not allowing AdSense publishers post AdSense Video units not only once but twice, dating back to December 21st, I believe. A Google AdSense representative, AdSensePro Ashley, posted that the issue is now resolved. She said: Thanks...
Google, on October 9th, launched Video AdSense units with YouTube. I then explained how to link up your YouTube account with AdSense to start displaying AdSense Video units. But as we reported on December 28th, there has been bugs with...
A number of people are trying to set up Google AdSense video units via YouTube and are running into a really strange error: AdSense error: The publisher must be associated with the developer account before the developer can invoke operations...
If you have been logged onto Gmail in the last day or so, you might have seen a link where you can share your Gmail story. That's right. Google is looking for you to share your stories on how you...
The following Microsoft Unified Communications video had mixed results at the Cre8asite Forums. To some, it resonated; to others, it didn't click. What are your criteria for viral videos? What do you like most? Do you consider this an effective...
Let's face it: even if Alexa is not a good measure, it still shows interesting data. Forum members note that YouTube now has an Alexa rank of 3, which beats out Live.com and MSN (ranking 4 and 5 respectively). Do...
The Inside AdSense blog has alerted the community to a pretty cool contest: share your experience with AdSense and you can be featured on the Inside AdSense blog. In order to do this, you need to have a YouTube account....
Yesterday I reported at Search Engine Land that Google announced the release of YouTube Video Identification Beta system. In short, Google and YouTube came under a lot of pressure for not doing enough to stop those who upload copyrighted materials....
Yesterday I wrote about the launch of Google AdSense video units, but like I said, no one with an AdSense account was able to use the feature yet. As of last night that changed. Here is a how to, on...
Last night Google announced at the AdSense blog that now all US publishers who are in the AdSense program can add video units to their sites. A video AdSense unit looks like this: Watch the latest videos on YouTube.com At...
ProBlogger is reporting a lot of AdSense publishers noticing that Google is offering them the ability to place video content from YouTube on their sites, which will display video ads within the ads. There is a corresponding thread at DigitalPoint...
YouTube Initiates Monetization Strategy With Transparent Video 'Overlays' by Greg Sterling sums it all up well. Google has started to try to monetize YouTube with video overlay ads that are a bit transparent. Here is a screen capture from Greg:...
A WebmasterWorld thread asks, why is there no apparent connection between YouTube videos and Google Maps. Well, technically, there is. After you upload a video, you have an option of setting the "Date and Map Options." Here are screen captures...
A DigitalPoint Forums thread asks if Google counts the links from YouTube videos. The simple answer is no. If you look at a YouTube video that has a link in the description field, you will notice that in the code...
digg_url='http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/014024.html'; A WebmasterWorld thread points us to a Telegraph.co.uk article that says that MySpace intends to launch a rival to YouTube allowing for video sharing. The new product, dubbed MySpaceTV, allows users who are not members of MySpace to...
I don't think this is a tough question to answer, but a DigitalPoint Forums member asks whether YouTube is better than Google Video for sharing videos. Part of me says to submit my vids w/ YouTube b/c that's where all...
The YouTube blog announced some interesting news last week. The most popular YouTube contributors will be paid for their original content. Initial user participants have been selected from the content creators that you have helped popularize by watching their videos...
Cre8asite Forums moderator posted a thread named Official Google Channel On Youtube. Yes, there is an official Google YouTube channel located at youtube.com/google. The channel has a collection of videos specific to Google. The featured one right now is a...
A member at the Cre8asite Forums asks the inevitable question: will YouTube, which is succumbing under pressure from several media outlets for publishing videos containing copyrighted material, keep its membership as the videos themselves -- which are behind the success...
Yesterday I reported at Search Engine Land that Viacom Sues Google For $1 Billion Over Unauthorized Videos. Viacom said they are basically tired of Google not doing enough to remove their content from YouTube. Google said they have "not received...
A DigitalPoint Forums thread notes how a Google search on shoes returns a YouTube result. The YouTube video can be found here and it shows a humorous movie on shoes. The thread wonders why anyone searching on shoes would be...
A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion on recent news that Google's YouTube has handed over the identity of two YouTube users. These YouTube users uploaded Fox Network's 24 and other shows, prior to them being aired on Fox. This upset Fox...
The news over the weekend was all about Google's YouTube sharing ad dollars with their users, the users who generate the video content. Jennifer Slegg has her Search Engine Land post YouTube to Begin Revenue Sharing for Video Providers. WebmasterWorld...
Yesterday I reported at Search Engine Land that Google Video Search Now Includes YouTube Results based on a Google announcement. So a search on Scooba Cleaning in Action brings up my YouTube video that I used in My Scooba In...
Seems like everyone is taking a stab at Google and YouTube's recent fortune - but that would have been expected. Everyone is talking about it now, UTube.com is suing YouTube.com for "site confusion." What is the issue, the Guardian explains;...
A DigitalPoint Forums thread reports that Google is indexing and ranking YouTube results in Google Images. An example search that brings up results is [+"good times with weapons"]. I currently see four YouTube results displaying, there is also a screen...
I reported this morning at Search Engine Watch that YouTube Deletes 30,000 Japanese Media Files & Deals With Record Labels. Basically, they were hit with a copyright infringement notice and YouTube complied. It has drum up some discussion in the...
A cute thread at DigitalPoint Forums ask members to rename YouTube after the Google acquisition notice. Some ideas include; GooTube YouTuble Toogle YouToogle TubeOfGoo So far GooTube is winning the vote. Forum discussion at DigitalPoint Forums. This entry was written...
Google bought YouTube but how are they going to make money with it? Jen has her post here with her thoughts, honestly, it is a bit long and I didn't read it. But I would assume Google will be embedding...
The sixth edition of the Search Pulse has now been archived. Tim Mayer from Yahoo! was our special guest. Tim told us that we can expect support from Yahoo! on the NOODP tag, but it would be a lot more...
You all heard the news already, Google To Acquire YouTube for $1.65 Billion in Stock; MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., October 9, 2006 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has agreed to acquire YouTube, the consumer media company for...
Google to buy YouTube? That is the rumor Techcrunch started and then the Wall Street Journal backed. Web-search giant Google is in talks to acquire YouTube for roughly $1.6 billion, a person familiar with the matter says. An acquisition of...
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