Monday, October 19, 2009

Search Comments on YouTube in Real-Time

Today, Comments Search moves into Test Tube, the place where our engineers and developers test out new features and gather data and feedback before pushing them out to a wider audience. This feature allows you to search the comments people are making on YouTube in real time. The full comment will appear on a continuously updated results page, and "trending topics" indicates the hottest topics of conversation on YouTube at that particular moment. Comments Search is a way you can find out what YouTube users are saying about everything from the news stories of the day (below, see results when we typed in "balloon boy") to your individual channel or brand.

So try it out, enter your feedback here or comment below, and help us get this feature ready for the masses. We're always working on new ways to enhance search across YouTube and give quick and easy access to the information people are looking for.

Jamie Davidson, Product Manager, recently watched "Strange Cloud Over Moscow Oct 2009."

48 comments:

Casey Caizza said...

boobs

Grayson said...

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nicomdurham said...

REVENGE of the FALLEN BLU RAY!!

ybhsa9978 said...

Lol she said boobs

Juan said...

5th!

patrick said...

http://www.retardedpatrick.tk
I sort of like this :D
anyways,found this on Twitter and fb,nice job

MitchellGaston said...

I like it.

mightylions1 said...

Haha ur search thing is "Ballon Boy" XD

killerzone98 said...

POINTLESS.

TheShupers said...

GO ON THIS LINK http://www.youtube.com/user/TheShupers AND WATCH ALL THERE VIDS, I HEARD THAT THERE FUNNY!!!

santiagosony said...

i dont get how this function could be useful. too much twitter engineers?

Bryce said...
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Reese said...

This is great, but when are you ACTUALLY going to get to the real problems with this site? Like how you let everyone false flag and false DMCA claim videos. I'd rather have a site with not many functions that have no flaws than a site that has lots of functions that are buggy as heck.

Jeremy C. said...

Very very cool feature! Hopefully the spam bots wont abuse it like they do on twitter, right!? :D

sphartzmartin said...

SEARCH ON YOUTUBE gigglebot20 OR lilearzya

Molly said...

love that feature i found a video i have been looking for for weeks

N/A said...

I thought that this new feature was pointless. However, I just tried it out and found a video that I would have never found if I had used YouTube's regular search. I love this feature.

N/A said...

Is the search sorted in chronological order?

One thing needs fixed. When a search yields no results, I get a 500 Internal Server Error.

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Jess said...

Why would you want to search comments? Also Reese had a good point. Rather than making the site flashier, make it function properly first.

Kyle Backstrom said...

Hey Youtube, when can I revert my channel back to the old design in real time?

Don't tell me it'd be useless or waste development time, as this post shows that you guys are all about doing both of those things instead of focusing on actual site functionality issues.

Red Butterfly said...

YOU TUBE IS THE BEST!!!GREAT! Love this new feature of YOU TUBE! More Power you tube! It makes easier now to look for a videos. Very interesting, and user friendly. I await for further development of YOU TUBE, more, more more to come. Keep rocking! We can't deny the fact that YOU TUBE is one of the well known internet site on uploading our favorite videos, that we wanted to be seen all over the world. You tube is one of the most influencial website for many individuals. Infact, even those who doesn't have internet connection is so much aware that YOU TUBE is existing. I agree that YOU TUBE has some technical issues, but then the improvement of their technical team is doing great!

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HDRusers said...

Love to see Youtube. The mini movies are great. Please ban people who make nasty comments.

Harold Fowler said...

Wow thats like the kewlest thing I ever seen dude!

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Proz428 said...

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Proz428 said...

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Tabitha said...

No don't do it! It's like Twitter but more than that if you look at the amount of spammers in the Twitter Trending topics you can see that the same thing will happen on Youtube but on a bigger scale!!! Not a good idea, there are way too many ignorant hate comments on YouTube already, the last thing we need is those hate comments being promoted!

Winston said...

I think this is an awful idea. Almost no one types comments that, on their own, make sense and should be searchable. And there's already enough comment spam. This would only promote it. If you're going to implement this idea (although I don't suggest it), you need some (much better) way of moderating the comment section.

Amber said...

TheWillOfDC just posted a video about this that basically sums up my feelings.. IT'S STUPID. It'll spread even more spam, through trending topics and searches. Did you know if you look up Obama you get "f that n-word obama" like all over the place?

You say this is a family friendly site but doing this will only promote the hate.

morgannx139 said...

I think it's a bad idea for many reasons.
I completely agree with this guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUf8w5vfxh0&feature=sub

If you were to add features from another site, I think you should go with daily booth.
Being able to add pictures with your comments and things like that, but of course that'd have to be watched closely.
Twitter's features are just too different and don't work with Youtube:P

UltimatePhonReviews said...

No I don't like it, it brings out the hate in youtube too much

erik said...

i love u should do it

electronic cigarette ecig said...

Blogging in real time is neater than the electronic cigarette

Dee said...

ooooooo

naoyuki said...

any example what word could work well?
oh boobs
allow me sort out by using the curb for hype vids

ataf said...

DO it fuck people saying you're copying twitter, willofdc is being a douchebag about it...

Protect Test said...

Cool feature

Driadesynayades said...

YouTube rocks!

paul.wasneski said...

comment search seems pretty neat.

However, the one main change I would do to video comments (not necessarily the comments search) is to make them more like Digg.com and have them default to "most liked/digged." That way the best/funniest/most relevant comments are encouraged to rise to the top instead of the the way it is now, which seems to favor "most current."

Skid said...

Real-time comments is an illogical, basically useless idea.

Let us have our old channel designs back. Your new channel design is awful and I don't bloody want it.

Paul said...

I find it interesting that youtube isnt letting some of my comments be posted. Is this anti spam system or censorship?

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Manga Freak said...

Is there a way you can make it so that people cant see your join date?

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LKRaider said...

I don't care about trending comments, but at least with this I can keep track of my own comments, which is a missing feature on youtube right now

LKRaider said...

Scratch that, seems it searches the comments from only a few days, which doesn't help much

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