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 […]

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youtube-keywords-featuredNow, 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.

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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
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Barry Schwartz is 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. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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