'YouTube Instant' Creator Finds Instant Fame
By, Michelle Meyers
Sept. 13, 2010
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20016172-93.html?tag=topStories3
Last week a news article about Google Instant was discussed in my group. This week, as I searched online for an article, the most common article I received was about YouTube Instant. A student at Stanford, Feross Aboukhadijeh, tested Google Instant Wednesday as it made its debut and was so impressed he decided to use the same concept, only for YouTube. Only taking him three hours, Aboukhadijeh came up with a site that lets viewers search YouTube videos in real time. This allows people to type in what they are looking for, and the engine guesses what that video is and immediately plays it. Of course through his discovery, he received an offer from the CEO of YouTube for a full time job. Aboukhadijeh just finished up an internship with Facebook, and says he wants to finish college before accepting any job offers.
I think this is a good idea, but it needs a little work. If a user knows exactly what video they are looking for, it may be frustrating to have another video keep coming up. Also, it makes search words more important and valuable in finding a video. Likewise, what happens if the video that YouTube “thinks” you are looking for is not in fact that video, how do you search through the list of others available? While this site is already created, I feel like there needs to be ways around using YouTube real time if its needs do not fit the user. However, for someone randomly searching a video, I think this sounds like a very intelligent idea, and it does not seem like it will take long to have “real time” for everything available on the web.
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