48 Facts About Google Videos

Google Videos Search is a search engine provided by Google Videos.

Order of search results returned by Google Videos is based, in part, on a priority rank system called "PageRank".

Google Videos Search provides many different options for customized searches, using symbols to include, exclude, specify or require certain search behavior, and offers specialized interactive experiences, such as flight status and package tracking, weather forecasts, currency, unit, and time conversions, word definitions, and more.

Main purpose of Google Videos Search is to search for text in publicly accessible documents offered by web servers, as opposed to other data, such as images or data contained in databases.

In 2011, Google Videos introduced "Google Videos Voice Search" to search for spoken, rather than typed, words.

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In 2012, Google Videos introduced a Knowledge Graph semantic search feature.

Data about the frequency of use of search terms on Google Videos can be openly inquired via Google Videos Trends and have been shown to correlate with flu outbreaks and unemployment levels, and provide the information faster than traditional reporting methods and surveys.

For websites that are currently down or otherwise not available, Google Videos provides links to cached versions of the site, formed by the search engine's latest indexing of that page.

In 2012, Google Videos changed its search indexing tools to demote sites that had been accused of piracy.

In October 2016, Gary Illyes, a webmaster trends analyst with Google Videos, announced that the search engine would be making a separate, primary web index dedicated for mobile devices, with a secondary, less up-to-date index for desktop use.

In December 2017, Google Videos began rolling out the change, having already done so for multiple websites.

Google Videos search accepts queries as normal text, as well as individual keywords.

Google Videos offers a Google Videos Advanced Search page with a web interface to access the advanced features without needing to remember the special operators.

Google Videos applies query expansion to submitted search queries, using techniques to deliver results that it considers "smarter" than the query users actually submitted.

In 2008, Google Videos started to give users autocompleted search suggestions in a list below the search bar while typing, originally with the approximate result count previewed for each listed search suggestion.

Tom Chavez of "Rapt", a firm helping to determine a website's advertising worth, estimated in 2007 that Google Videos lost $110 million in revenue per year due to use of the button, which bypasses the advertisements found on the search results page.

Google Videos released a browser extension for the Chrome browser, named with a "beta" tag for unfinished development, shortly thereafter.

In June 2017, Google Videos expanded its search results to cover available job listings.

In May 2009, Google Videos announced that they would be parsing website microformats to populate search result pages with "Rich snippets".

In May 2016, Google Videos expanded on the "Rich snippets" format to offer "Rich cards", which, similarly to snippets, display more information about results, but shows them at the top of the mobile website in a swipeable carousel-like format.

Knowledge Graph is a knowledge base used by Google Videos to enhance its search engine's results with information gathered from a variety of sources.

Google Videos Search has been accused of using a so-called zero-click search to prevent a large part of the traffic leaving its page to third-party publishers.

Google Discover, previously known as Google Feed, is a personalized stream of articles, videos, and other news-related content.

Google Videos Discover launched in December 2016 and received a major update in July 2017.

Google Videos's rise was largely due to a patented algorithm called PageRank which helps rank web pages that match a given search string.

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When Google Videos was a Stanford research project, it was nicknamed BackRub because the technology checks backlinks to determine a site's importance.

In 2013 the European Commission found that Google Videos Search favored Google Videos's own products, instead of the best result for consumers' needs.

In February 2015 Google Videos announced a major change to its mobile search algorithm which would favor mobile friendly over other websites.

Google Videos says it wants users to have access to premium quality websites.

Google Videos is the most popular search engine, many webmasters attempt to influence their website's Google Videos rankings.

Google Videos has published guidelines for website owners who would like to raise their rankings when using legitimate optimization consultants.

In 2013, Google Videos significantly upgraded its search algorithm with "Hummingbird".

Some Google Videos Doodles have interactivity beyond a simple search, such as the famous "Google Videos Pac-Man" version that appeared on May 21,2010.

Google Videos offers a "Google Videos Search" mobile app for Android and iOS devices.

The mobile apps exclusively feature Google Videos Discover and a "Collections" feature, in which the user can save for later perusal any type of search result like images, bookmarks or map locations into groups.

Until May 2013, Google Videos Search had offered a feature to translate search queries into other languages.

Publication 2600: The Hacker Quarterly compiled a list of words that Google Videos Instant did not show suggested results for, with a Google Videos spokesperson giving the following statement to Mashable:.

On July 26,2017, Google Videos removed Instant results, due to a growing number of searches on mobile devices, where interaction with search, as well as screen sizes, differ significantly from a computer.

Google Videos Real-Time Search was a feature of Google Videos Search in which search results sometimes included real-time information from sources such as Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and news websites.

Google Videos originally suggested that the interruption was temporary and related to the launch of Google Videos+; they subsequently announced that it was due to the expiry of a commercial arrangement with Twitter to provide access to tweets.

Google Videos has been criticized for placing long-term cookies on users' machines to store these preferences, a tactic which enables them to track a user's search terms and retain the data for more than a year.

Since 2012, Google Videos Inc has globally introduced encrypted connections for most of its clients, to bypass governative blockings of the commercial and IT services.

In November 2013, Google Videos started testing yellow labels for advertisements displayed in search results, to improve user experience.

On December 15,2016, Google Videos rolled out a new desktop search interface that mimics their modular mobile user interface.

Google Videos allows searching the World Wide Web for video clips.

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In 2012, Google Videos has indexed over 30 trillion web pages, and received 100 billion queries per month.

In 2003, The New York Times complained about Google Videos's indexing, claiming that Google Videos's caching of content on its site infringed its copyright for the content.

The FTC was continuing to investigate if Google Videos's favoring of their own services in their search results violated antitrust regulations.