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Heard of Google Instant? Well, I built YouTube Instant.

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Re: Heard of Google Instant? Well, I built YouTube Instant.

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Post by roc »

citricsquid wrote: post #24
redcap wrote: post #18

Feature request: a way to get to the original video so I can share it. Got an awesome video for "doctor who", but I can't find it on youtube.com

click the "youtube" logo on the bottom right

Rather than a link to the current video, I'd like to see a list of history.

E.g. how do I get to what I saw two videos back? I started typing "drum video", saw something interesting as an intermediate result as I was typing, but as it processed more of my query, it had jumped to a new video before i could click.

Granted, I just retyped my query letter by letter to find what i was looking for ("dru"). But I don't know if a fixed query always bringing back a single result or if that's desired functionality vs limitation vs bug.

Re: Heard of Google Instant? Well, I built YouTube Instant.

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Post by feross »

what wrote: post #37
feross wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi there Andrew, I'm the author. After reading the comments on HN and elsewhere, I'm surprised to see my hack being praised for it's simplicity. If I had more time last night, I would have implemented more features - I have a ton of ideas. I guess it's good that I didn't. It looks like simplicity won.

Speed it up by not going through your server to get the query suggestions. You can drop the jsonp parameter and just eval the results. Or change the jsonp parameter and include it as a script tag.

I'm now doing everything client-side using JQuery and tags to get around cross-domain XHR limitations. Now Google can't block it. :)

Re: Heard of Google Instant? Well, I built YouTube Instant.

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Post by djb_hackernews »

feross wrote: post #43
what wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Speed it up by not going through your server to get the query suggestions. You can drop the jsonp parameter and just eval the results. Or change the jsonp parameter and include it as a script tag.

I'm now doing everything client-side using JQuery and tags to get around cross-domain XHR limitations. Now Google can't block it. :)

They can block by referer, of which your domain is. Though I doubt they would.

Re: Heard of Google Instant? Well, I built YouTube Instant.

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Post by leeskye »

metamemetics wrote: post #15

I like the minimal interface. This website is perfect. Your getting something unexpected stumbleupon style, but you are controlling the seed of randomness, making it more interactive and game like. The funnest thing is entering random letters\nonwords. For example "rowlz".

It would be great if there was a stumble button that proceeded to next random video. I always thought there should be a stumble upon for video.

Re: Heard of Google Instant? Well, I built YouTube Instant.

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Post by what »

djb_hackernews wrote: post #45
feross wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm now doing everything client-side using JQuery and tags to get around cross-domain XHR limitations. Now Google can't block it. :)

They can block by referer, of which your domain is. Though I doubt they would.

Considering they offered him a job (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1680265), I don't think they'll block it.
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