Useful Search Options Comes To Google Video

By Barry Schwartz

Published: June 8, 2009 at 9:34 am

Google Operating System noticed Google Video added the search options feature that recently came to Google Web Search. The search refinements, which are viewable by first conducting a search on Google Video and then clicking on “Show Options” include:

TV View: List vs Grid View
Video Duration: Short (0–4 min.), Medium (4–20 min.) or Long (20+ min.)
Freshness of Video: Any time, Past 24 hours, Past week or Past month
Sort By: Sorted by relevance or Sorted by date
Video Quality: Any quality vs. High quality
Video Sources: Such as any source, dailymotion.com, google.com, metacafe.com, viddler.com, webpronews.com, youtube.com and so on.
Vide Play Area: All videos or Playable on Google
Closed captioned availability or not

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About the author

Barry Schwartz

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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