Google Showing Large Video Embeds In Some Search Results
Now, if you search Google for video related content, Google may return a large, playable, video directly at the top of the search results. For example, searching for [sing it loud come around] shows a large YouTube video that you can play directly in the search results. Searching for [neil young cinnamon girl] also shows […]
Barry Schwartz on February 4, 2014 at 5:13 pm | Reading time: 1 minute
Now, if you search Google for video related content, Google may return a large, playable, video directly at the top of the search results.
For example, searching for [sing it loud come around] shows a large YouTube video that you can play directly in the search results.
Searching for [neil young cinnamon girl] also shows a YouTube video, as does [the killers mr brightside] and many other searches.
I have yet to see any other source, outside of YouTube show up in any of my tests.
Last year, Google began testing video thumbnails on tablet devices.
This was spotted by Moz and Samuel Edwards from Tenthwave Digital first.
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.
In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.