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Said Aboukhadijeh, "there was craziness," describing the response to the creation of Youtube Instant. And by "craziness," Aboukhadijeh meant e-mails congratulating him, interview requests, and a server flooded with Web traffic. Most notable was the job offer from YouTube CEO Chad Hurley via Twitter, to which Aboukhadijeh replied "Is that a for-real offer?" Hurley then asked if Aboukhadijeh was "ready to leave school" <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.feross.org/ |title=Feross.org |accessdate=2010-09-13}}</ref>. A meeting between Aboukhadijeh and [[Chad Hurley]] at YouTube's San Bruno, California, headquarters was scheduled.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20016172-93.html |title='YouTube Instant' creator finds instant fame |publisher= cnet news |date= |accessdate=2010-09-13}}</ref>
Said Aboukhadijeh, "there was craziness," describing the response to the creation of Youtube Instant. And by "craziness," Aboukhadijeh meant e-mails congratulating him, interview requests, and a server flooded with Web traffic. Most notable was the job offer from YouTube CEO Chad Hurley via Twitter, to which Aboukhadijeh replied "Is that a for-real offer?" Hurley then asked if Aboukhadijeh was "ready to leave school" <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.feross.org/ |title=Feross.org |accessdate=2010-09-13}}</ref>. A meeting between Aboukhadijeh and [[Chad Hurley]] at YouTube's San Bruno, California, headquarters was scheduled.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20016172-93.html |title='YouTube Instant' creator finds instant fame |publisher= cnet news |date= |accessdate=2010-09-13}}</ref>


Shortly after the creation of YouTube Instant came the creation of [[Google Maps Instant]] <ref>[http://lifehacker.com/5635609/youtube-instant-and-google-maps-instant-follow-in-google-instants-footsteps]</ref> and [[Instant Wikipedia]] <ref>[http://www.theinstantwiki.com]</ref> .
Shortly after the creation of YouTube Instant came the creation of [[Google Maps Instant]] <ref>[http://lifehacker.com/5635609/youtube-instant-and-google-maps-instant-follow-in-google-instants-footsteps]</ref>, [[Instant Wikipedia]] <ref>[http://www.theinstantwiki.com]</ref> as well as Instantise that was developed by Scottish enginner Tam Denhom.

In response to these sites, CNET could be quoted for stating that "imitation is the highest form of flattery." <ref>[http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/09/14/cnet.youtube.instant.creator/]</ref> and [[Instant Wikipedia]] <ref>[http://www.theinstantwiki.com]</ref>
TechCrunch pointed to Alabama-based developer Michael Hart, who build Google Maps Instant using jQuery and the Google Maps API. It was the same blogger who pointed to an "all-encompassing Instantise page that gives a home to the evidently quickly growing number of sites with instant, predictive search results."


The internet has also played an important role in leading to YouTube Instant become viral. Among the media outlets that have covered YouTube Instant are Washington Post, New York Times, Sydney Morning Herald, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable 1, Gawker, Hacker News, Engadget, Tech Crunch, Fast Company All Things Digital Venture Beat, Life Hacker, PC Magazine, Reddit, San Francisco Chronicle, Business Insider, Stuff.co.nz TechVibes, Stanford Review and El Comercio.
The internet has also played an important role in leading to YouTube Instant become viral. Among the media outlets that have covered YouTube Instant are Washington Post, New York Times, Sydney Morning Herald, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable 1, Gawker, Hacker News, Engadget, Tech Crunch, Fast Company All Things Digital Venture Beat, Life Hacker, PC Magazine, Reddit, San Francisco Chronicle, Business Insider, Stuff.co.nz TechVibes, Stanford Review and El Comercio.

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YouTube Instant
Developer(s)Feross Aboukhadijeh
Initial release10 September 2010 (2010-09-10)
Website[5]

YouTube Instant[1] is a real-time search engine built by nineteen-year-old [2] college student Feross Aboukhadijeh of Stanford University that allows its users to search the YouTube video database as they type. It follows on the heels of Google Instant[3], and has been described as a "novelty toy" [4], as well as a "catchy little title" [5]. Aboukhadijeh was offered a job from YouTube CEO Chad Hurley shortly after he created the site [6] [7][8] [9]. At the point of YouTube Instant's creation, Aboukhadijeh was a summer intern at Facebook.[10]

Origins

The launch of YouTube Instant was announced by Aboukhadijeh on Y Combinator’s Hacker News feed, which is a news aggregation site that shares similarities with Digg and Reddit. It is modelled after Google Instant — as a user types in the video they are looking for, "the engine guesses the video and begins playing it immediately."

The project started off as a bet with his college roommate. Said Aboukhadijeh, "It started out as a bet with my roommate, Jake Becker. I bet him I could build real-time YouTube search in less than an hour." [11] Aboukhadijeh lost the bet, for it took him three hours to complete the site, and another couple hours to polish it. Aboukhadijeh said he found it "surprisingly easy to build".

Aboukhadijeh built the site by using the YouTube API. He scraped YouTube search suggestions because Google blocked his server for making far too many repeated requests to the search suggestion endpoint. Aboukhadijeh had to re-write the site to instead query YouTube directly for search suggestions, "eliminating the round-trip to [his] server", in order to address the problem.[12]

Description

The YouTube Instant interface, which looks similar to the YouTube front page consists of a box designed for a user to type in his search letter or phrase. As each letter of the search phrase is typed in, the server goes out into "YouTube video land" and tries to find who it is you might be searching for. "For instance, when "Bon" was typed in, it instantly brought up Bon Jovi and started to play "Living on a Prayer on the video screen instantly. It also had other various video selections from the same group." [13]

Public Response

Said Aboukhadijeh, "there was craziness," describing the response to the creation of Youtube Instant. And by "craziness," Aboukhadijeh meant e-mails congratulating him, interview requests, and a server flooded with Web traffic. Most notable was the job offer from YouTube CEO Chad Hurley via Twitter, to which Aboukhadijeh replied "Is that a for-real offer?" Hurley then asked if Aboukhadijeh was "ready to leave school" [14]. A meeting between Aboukhadijeh and Chad Hurley at YouTube's San Bruno, California, headquarters was scheduled.[15]

Shortly after the creation of YouTube Instant came the creation of Google Maps Instant [16], Instant Wikipedia [17] as well as Instantise that was developed by Scottish enginner Tam Denhom.

In response to these sites, CNET could be quoted for stating that "imitation is the highest form of flattery." [18] and Instant Wikipedia [19] TechCrunch pointed to Alabama-based developer Michael Hart, who build Google Maps Instant using jQuery and the Google Maps API. It was the same blogger who pointed to an "all-encompassing Instantise page that gives a home to the evidently quickly growing number of sites with instant, predictive search results."

The internet has also played an important role in leading to YouTube Instant become viral. Among the media outlets that have covered YouTube Instant are Washington Post, New York Times, Sydney Morning Herald, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable 1, Gawker, Hacker News, Engadget, Tech Crunch, Fast Company All Things Digital Venture Beat, Life Hacker, PC Magazine, Reddit, San Francisco Chronicle, Business Insider, Stuff.co.nz TechVibes, Stanford Review and El Comercio.

See Also

References

  1. ^ "Youtube Instant". Ghacks.net. Retrieved 2010-09-12.
  2. ^ "Student Creator of 'YouTube Instant' Offered YouTube Job". digitalmediawire. Retrieved 2010-09-12.
  3. ^ Henry Blodget. "YouTube Instant". Businessinsider.com. Retrieved 2010-09-12. {{cite web}}: Text "1,186" ignored (help); Text "4" ignored (help); Text "Sep. 10, 2010, 7:30 AM" ignored (help)
  4. ^ September 10, 2010 Brenna Ehrlich View Comments (2010-08-29). "Google Instant Is Cool, But Check Out YouTube Instant". Mashable.com. Retrieved 2010-09-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ September 10, 2010 Brenna Ehrlich View Comments (2010-08-29). "What is YouTube Instant?". Computers & Technology: Internet. Retrieved 2010-09-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ Posted by John 10:10 AM (CST). "[H]ard|OCP - Youtube and Maps Instant". Hardocp.com. Retrieved 2010-09-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ September 10, 2010. "Stanford student creates YouTube Instant, gets job offer from YouTube CEO". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2010-09-12. {{cite web}}: Text "Matthew Lynley" ignored (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ September 10, 2010. "Instant student creates YouTube and contacted via Twitter to work on the video site". Retrieved 2010-09-12. {{cite web}}: Text "Matthew Lynley" ignored (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ "College Kid Makes 'YouTube Instant,' Gets Instant YouTube Job Offer". Gawker.com. Retrieved 2010-09-12.
  10. ^ "Student Creator of 'YouTube Instant' Offered YouTube Job". digitalmediawire. Retrieved 2010-09-12.
  11. ^ "Instant fame: how to get a job ... without even searching". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2010-09-12.
  12. ^ "'YouTube Instant' creator finds instant fame". cnet news. Retrieved 2010-09-13.
  13. ^ September 10, 2010 Brenna Ehrlich View Comments (2010-08-29). "What is YouTube Instant?". Computers & Technology: Internet. Retrieved 2010-09-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ "Feross.org". Retrieved 2010-09-13.
  15. ^ "'YouTube Instant' creator finds instant fame". cnet news. Retrieved 2010-09-13.
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