Google Search Lets You Expand Video On Top Of Search Results

Nov 3, 2022 - 7:41 am 0 by
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Google Search, for some videos, allows you to click an expand icon on some videos it shows you in the search results. That expand button will then overlay a larger playable video with more details.

I think this is new, Punit said it is a test, but it seems to be fully live for me, he shared some examples on Twitter, which I will embed below.

Here is what the expand icon looks like:

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When you click on it, it overlays this on top of the search results:

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Here are the videocasts from Punit:

Google has done video overlays in search before, many and many times.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

Update: Also for mobile search:

 

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