April 28, 2008

Google Video Categories

The latest Google Video redesign removed yet another useful feature from the interface: restricting search results to a certain category. The feature is still available, but you need to use the genre: operator in your searches. Here are some of the most popular genres:

genre:animation
genre:comedy
genre:documentary
genre:educational
genre:gaming
genre:movie_feature
genre:music
genre:sports
genre:tv_show

Examples of searches:
ufo genre:documentary
charlie chaplin genre:movie_feature
data mining genre:educational

You can also use the genre: operator to better describe your search when you want to subscribe to a Google Video feed or to get an email alert when new videos are uploaded.


At some point in Google Video's history, you could browse videos by genre directly from the homepage, but you can still use the genre: operator without any other keyword to see popular videos from a certain category, like TV shows.
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6 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 28, 2008 at 7:25 PM

    great query! bbc genre:documentary

    Excellent videos!

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  2. TOMHTMLApril 28, 2008 at 10:18 PM

    Most popular? genre:mature_adult...

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  3. AnonymousApril 30, 2008 at 3:58 PM

    Nice search queries, however the new layout is useless, and only provides trivial films, the difference between quality of youtube and googlevideo is no longer there.

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  4. AnonymousSeptember 12, 2008 at 9:19 PM

    Your new layout has no advantage over youtube. Before we could browse hundreds of videos while watch one. Very cool. Now there is no point in visiting you site again.

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  5. one million euroApril 2, 2009 at 5:14 AM

    Really, Thanks alot for these great tips.

    With genre:MOVIE_FEATURE, I can watch full movies.

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  6. soft damageApril 2, 2009 at 5:19 AM

    very very important operators that I need so much.

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