YouTube is morphing into a popular search engine and a new entry point into the Web. (nytimes.com)

12 points by mercurio 17y ago ↗ HN

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I'm very impressed that YouTube has gotten to this point, but this is a great example of how the net evolves in unexpected ways.

Amazingly, YouTube is the number two search site after Google - http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/39777/113/

7.6 billion for Google and 2.6 billion for YouTube as of last August.

brandnewlow 17y ago ↗

So which company's PR team planted this, Blinkx or AdaptiveBlue.com?

My money's on AdaptiveBlue

josefresco 17y ago ↗

THANK you. Fluff pieces like this in big media make me sick.

known 17y ago ↗

I hear and I forget. I SEE and I REMEMBER. I do and I understand. -- Confucius

robg 17y ago ↗

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

-- Ben Franklin

ttam 17y ago ↗

I've heard of this kind of usage before, and it caught me totally by surprise. Google must be loving this. It's no longer a funny/music/weird video portal, it's now a place where people go to find information and knowledge (even more since they moved googletalks into youtube).