Google® Power Tools Bible

Chapter 5. Hunting for Videos

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• Find videos to watch by category and featured lists

• Play selected videos on the Web

• Tell others about videos you see on Google video

• Learn to download and use the Google Video Player

• Purchase videos for viewing

• Upload and share your video with others

• Manage your videos and add transcripts

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If you are bored watching cable TV and need entertainment, try Google Video. It’s a fun place to find videos on practically any topic. Google Video hosts free amateur videos, free funny clips, or previews for some of your favorite TV shows and digital movies. After you watch the previews to longer productions, Google makes it easy to purchase them to watch any time you want.

Video Categories

To begin your video adventure at Google Video point your Web browser to video.google.com. Visiting this page launches the Google Video search page, as shown in Figure 5.1. Notice along the top of the page, just beneath the search box, there are links to the various video categories. They include:

Figure 5.1. Search for all types of videos from the Google Video page.

• Top 100

• Comedy

• Music videos

• Movies

• Sports

• Animation

• TV shows

• Google Picks

Links to the top 100 rated videos are displayed in the Top 100 category along with a user rating and the number of people who rated the video. Google bases the rating on how many people watched a video the previous ...