YouTube Generation- Videos Taking Over Text
November 24th 2008 13:02
Category: Web/ Internet
Just about anything and everything you want to see or know is on the internet. You can search Google and you will find your search. Well, YouTube is getting that way. You can find the birth of puppies, how to put together a computer, and how to cook Christmas cookies all on YouTube.
Because of YouTube, we have entered the age of transparency where everythign we do is on record and then publicized for the world to view. The online video movement is changing our society greatly.
All the talk about YouTube videos taking over the internet knowledge and information base, may actually spark a new type of search engine, where all searches are video related versus text based articles.
Anything that can be a video will be a video, which means that educational videos, tourism, and anything that can be recorded will. Videos aren't just for music clips and movies any more.
It is highly unlikely that videos will replace text, but more and more peoe are finding videos to help them versus searching through hundred of thousands of pages to find the right textual information.
The one good thing about text, is that it can be interlinked, whereas it will be much harder to interlink videos because you can't insert links and clickable objects within the video. But, this really isn't that big of a concern, in the long run, as videos can still hold the same information as an inter-linked page of text.
But, even to date, there has been a big shift of search engine searches versus YouTube searches, especially as the price of video cameras continue to decrease.
YouTube is currently the second larges search engine, and their traffic is through the roof, and this is just the beginning.
Although, for the most part, YouTube is still for entertainment, but I have seen a change over the past year, alone, where more and more 'How To,' education, and instrucational, videos have been uploaded to the website.
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Comment by Anonymous
You'll be watching a video and suddenly a little bubble pops up saying, if you haven't seen tutorial 2, click here. this will take the user straight to the next video and is used a lot in online lessons...
The speed of the internet has had a massive impact on the way we use it, the quicker it gets the more we use it and the more we can do with it...
How long will it be before television is broadcast solely as an interactive medium and interconnected with the internet?
That is the direction we are heading
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