Following the recent rollout of the new Bedtime Reminders feature in YouTube for Android, Google has now started testing a new feature that will show search results from the web within the app. The feature was recently spotted by Reddit user u/TheMrIggs when he searched “open beer with knife” in the YouTube app. As you can see in the screenshots below, the results listed a couple of related videos, as usual, followed by a new “Results from the web” card featuring a recommended result from Google Search for the same query.
There are already so many ads in YouTube, and now Google is clearly considering even adding web search results to YouTube. The next step Google is probably considering will be ads inside YouTube’s search suggestions.
When I go to YouTube, I go there to watch videos – not to search the web. These attempts at “synergy” are common in the technology world, and they rarely seem to benefit the user.
Yet another reason to never update apps. “An uncomfortable verb” security scares.
Uh… if I wanted to search the web, I’d have done so. This is just as annoying as Google putting YouTube results in my web searches. If I want YouTube, I will search it. If I want a web search, then I want a blasted web search! How hard is it for these nutjobs in Silicon Valley to understand such a simple concept? Do not try to guess what I want. I am already telling you!