Google Labs launches GAudi - Find your keywords

Google launched Google Audio Indexing (aka GAudi) in Google Labs. It is a new audio search tool. Simply find your keywords within Youtube's video audio. The dedicated site offers features such as "search within video" and "sharing," and a more robust user interface. More here!

Google: The future of online video

"Ten years ago the world of online video was little more than an idea. It was used mostly by professionals like doctors or lawyers in limited and closed settings. Connections were slow, bandwidth was limited, and video gear was expensive and bulky. There were many false starts and outlandish promises over the years about the emergence of online video. It was really the dynamic growth of the Internet (in terms of adoption, speed and ubiquity) that helped to spur the idea that online video - millions of people around the world shooting it, uploading it, viewing it via broadband - was even possible." Read more here : The Future of Online Video
By Chad Hurley, CEO and Co-Founder, YouTube

Download YouTube Videos: 23 Ways

Google has a solid amount of cash in its pockets, but with all the recent lawsuits against YouTube one has to wonder if it’s time to salvage whatever videos you like from the service and save them somewhere where evil attorneys won’t look – your hard drive.
Luckily, there are literally dozens of tools for downloading videos from YouTube and/or converting those YouTube videos to some format other than .flv. It’s hard to pick the best one, as they all have pluses and minuses. Thus, we’ve chosen 23 YouTube downloader tools we’ve found to be actually working. Here they are, categorized according to the platform they work on: by Stan Schroeder More...