And.. yes, now that I know the purpose of the search function I know that having a Google/web search is pointless- but, again, some people may just not know.

I suppose if you pre-filled the search field with “Search YouTube…” in greyed out text then it would help the situation somewhat, and avoid some confusion.

I assumed it was a search field that sent you to youtube.com but that’s simply because I knew YouTube hadn’t been working on tagging sections of video publicly (even though you’re no doubt looking into it!)

I must say the YouTube embedded player is looking better and better, and this revision will certainly lead to the YouTube site itself gaining more page views which can only be a good thing for you.

To answer your question as to how it works, it’s actually just an ordinary search box. If you search for “puppies” you will find videos of puppies (in fact, the same results you would find at youtube.com).

You raise an interesting point though, and I wonder if there is anything we can do to make it more apparent what that box does at a glance. Or will people just use it and find out though?

Thanks for the feedback

Perhaps, just like a DVD has chapters which you can skip to.. YouTube videos will have tags written at certain intervals (every few seconds to every few minutes depending on the length of the clip) which you can “skip” to upon typing just a couple characters.

So perhaps not, but like I said- my imagination lacks in certain areas.