That dropdown is just a list of Google’s products, that when clicked on open a new window to the home page of the product you have chosen.. It shows up in Reader, Goggle Docs, Calendar……. Just an easy way to get to the different Google Products.

If you do a search from the Google home page and there is video that fits your search it is all shown in the search results without having to “refine” your search, even You Tube videos.

Must have been a slow day?

I think that’s for Larry, Sergey and Eric to say…

A suggestion…. that seems to them if they add a button that take directly to the blogs and articles related with the cancer!

can created a “news” story out of it.

And no credit to reader??

WTF

Your website. You need better design. Go to “free css” on google search. Pick the simple one. Don’t use graphical fancy ui. You need horsepowe & speed.

Ewan

You need .com, and “free css”

You can’t beat youtube ratings if they launch pay users. You can’t beat HULU. You can’t beat the upcoming pay-video startup they make. Creative destruction going mad.

You got mad geniuses out here.

@11 is bang on.

On the google homepage, when we click any item from the drop down menu of “more”, it simply takes the user there, doesn’t *search* automatically!

The only way I see this happening is once the user has actually pressed “Google Search” button, and then from the results page goes to *more* and selects a new channel like blogs, videos, … does the searched item gets searched on the new channel. I think this is what you meant..

I tried your startup website… When I type “Apple”. Your search result couldn’t pick up “Apple” computer releated to early steve jobs or young steve jobs meet bill gates. In addition, it need more improvement. And the image running process search is very slow. And you need to fix the logo. Try not create your own logo. You should hire professional designer who could create better logo. YOur website looks much better than bright cove. It’s easy and simple… But too slow… You got job to do…

Yes, you website is popular along with Rolling stone, Forbes, and businessweek. You got fix your job…

@11, what are you talking about? When I put in a search term and click on “Blog” or “Video” or any other option, it takes me to the search results page for that term on the corresponding Google search property. When I click on YouTube, it takes me to the YouTube homepage, where I do have to type the search term again to find videos related to that term. Is that not what you see?

Time out.

First of all none of those additional options (not one of them) will automatically search in those sites if you just type a search term on the home page and click on those links. Those links are simply there to take you to those Google properties where you can then search if you want.

“But how does this new search option help me as a consumer looking for videos?”
IT’S NOT A SEARCH OPTION!

“Typing the same search twice is no fun.”
THEY DON’T EXPECT YOU TO TYPE YOUR QUERY TWICE!

The only half-valid point you raise in your post is that users might get confused between video and you-tube. But this is the typical tactic most companies use when they change names (think Anderson Consulting to Accenture) or are slowly phasing out one brand for another (think Cingular to “the new AT&T) - for awhile they will use both in the same ad, then give more prominence to the new name (and add a “previously known as …” addendum) and then stop using the old name altogether. YouTube will probably rise up the list in a similar fashion as “Video” fades out.

“Google is supposed to search the Web, not push Google’s products.”
Oh really? So now you decide what Google should and should not be doing by using your narrow-minded definition for their vision? Wow - as chairman of the board of directors of Google, you are sure to impress the shareholders with your views.

Fact: Google is supposed to do well as a company, as ethically as possible while still make money for its shareholders. *That* is what it is supposed to be doing.

Period.

I do respect the fact they are GOOGLE, but there is sooo much more going on in tech today that it would be nice to have some balance.

Also if memory serves me correctly this isn’t the first time TechCrunch is overly-googed! Does google have a “news-release” friday akin to MS’s update Tuesday?

They might have just put it there (although redundant) to separate the two as far as search results go. What would be more effective is if they just put a “Sort by Site” feature on the vide.google.com side. This would leave the choice up to the user.

With many video sites popping up, they might be losing traction. For instance, the recent release of the feature that pays people to post videos. Yes, this is awesome - giving something back to the “community” in hopes to thrive on this viral video market in return for traffic that is attractive to advertisers. That isn’t something new though, it’s being very effective over at MetaCafe. They do have the advantage of being owned by Google; thus giving the public a natural sense of “better service”, I could be wrong.

I’m getting off topic.

-ronlg

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