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Yes. As The NYTimes Article Notes:
"And now YouTube, conceived as a video hosting and sharing site, has become a bona fide search tool. Searches on it in the United States recently edged out those on Yahoo, which had long been the No. 2 search engine, behind Google. (Google, incidentally, owns YouTube.) In November, Americans conducted nearly 2.8 billion searches on YouTube, about 200 million more than on Yahoo, according to comScore.'
[ http://tinyurl.com/8oj885 <http://tinyurl.com/8oj885> ]
/Gerry
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Sent: Sun 1/18/2009 12:27 PM
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Subject: Re: YouTube: The Reference Tool
What's the second most queried search engine on the Internet? Yahoo? No,
YouTube.
(so I was told at a talk a few months ago).
McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] wrote:
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> New York Times / January 18, 2009 / Ping
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> At First, Funny Videos. Now, a Reference Tool / By MIGUEL HELFT
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> FACED with writing a school report on an Australian animal, Tyler
> Kennedy began where many students begin these days: by searching the
> Internet. But Tyler didn't use Google or Yahoo. He searched for
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> "I found some videos that gave me pretty good information about how it
> mates, how it survives, what it eats," Tyler said. Similarly, when Tyler
> gets stuck on one of his favorite games on the Wii, he searches YouTube
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> While he favors YouTube for searches, he said he also turns to Google
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> Tyler's way of experiencing the Web - primarily through video - may not
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> search engine underscores a shift that is much broader than the quirky
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> The explosion of all types of video content on YouTube and other sites
> is quickly transforming online video from a medium strictly for
> entertainment and news into one that is also a reference tool. As a
> result, video search, on YouTube and across other sites, is rapidly
> morphing into a new entry point into the Web, one that could rival
> mainstream search for many types of queries.
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