Searches on YouTube giving Experiment Warning Message

6 points by grumblepeet 13y ago ↗ HN

Basically a search on YouTube gets a red v=bar at the top of the results page with the words: Experiment: There may be confidential content in your search results. Please do not share outside Google.<p>Anyone else seeing this at the moment?

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c0n5pir4cy 13y ago ↗

I'm getting it, this is actually kind of interesting, Viral marketing for something perhaps?

Edit: looks like it might just be a botched revision.

grumblepeet 13y ago ↗

Ah thanks for the info, was worried it was just me for a while although the YouTube discussion on Google Groups is pretty full of this now.

chemcoder 13y ago ↗

here is a screenshot of the same http://awesomescreenshot.com/048198m964

[dead] Brian8 13y ago ↗

Very interesting. I wonder what the intended purpose of the message is.

It seems like Google might let employees see private YouTube user videos in their search results, but warns them not to share them.

AlexanderDhoore 13y ago ↗

I have it as well, but in Dutch: "Experiment: je zoekresultaten kunnen vertrouwelijke inhoud bevatten. Deel deze inhoud niet met mensen buiten Google."

mswen 13y ago ↗

I just saw it as well