YouTube Videos added to Google Video Search Index

Even before Google's acquisition of YouTube last November, Google search results included links to content hosted on YouTube, but now you can search Google Video for videos from YouTube, and the results appear in the Google Video search index as a YouTube video thumbnail, along with clickable text links. Click the thumbnail or text link, and you're sent to YouTube.com to watch the video.

You can always just head directly to Youtube.com to search for videos, but Google video search does a good job of getting video search results from other top video destinations on the web, and they provide RSS feeds for different video content categories.

more | GoogleBlog

via | NewTeeVee

On another note, the BBC reports that YouTube founder Chad Hurley confirmed that Youtube was working on a revenue-sharing system that would "reward creativity". That's right, Youtubers who upload their own videos will get a share of the ad revenue. Apparently the system will be rolled out in a couple of months, and uses a mixture of ads, including short clips shown ahead of the uploaded film.