How Many Videos In Google Video Search?
Google Video now indexes Google Video itself, YouTube and MetaCafe, with more sites set to be added in the future. The real question, though, is how many in total? Haochi tried to find out by running a number of searches, and running those same searches plus a few extra, the biggest number I’ve gotten Google Video to admit indexing is:
128,096,848
However, if you use the site: command, Google divides the indexed videos by site, and you get:
- site:google.com = 67,189,016
- site:youtube.com = 44,128,606
- site:metacafe.com = 67,192,736
- Total = 178,510,358
That’s pretty damn impressive. Not a billion videos (and not anywhere near all of YouTube, since I’m sure YouTube has more videos than the others), but a really great start.
Those site:-commands have never worked well for me on Google Video. At first, I tried searching ONLY for videos on Google Video by doing site:google.com, but it seemed to return YouTube videos as well. This seems to have been fixed now (I’ve been using -site:youtube.com for a while), but site:metacafe.com returns videos from Google Video as well for me, so if this is the case for you as well, your “67,192,736″ is completely off.
The highest number I can see is 80,890,537, with the so=1 removed from the URL. This might make sense, since not all videos are available all over the world.
With the so=1, I’m getting 56,708,027 results.
Comment by Tim | June 13, 2007
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=site%3Ametacafe.com&so=1 Never worked for me. When i type that it shows all the videos.
Comment by Sai | June 13, 2007
I got “280,488,664″ when I clicked on the link you returns “128,096,848″. Google doubled their index overnight? Really impress, Google.
Comment by Haochi | June 13, 2007
Seems like the count changes almost every time you search. Jumps up and down. Google should fix that.
Comment by Nathan Weinberg | June 13, 2007
The total number of videos is around 55,000,000 - 60,000,000.
http://video.google.com/videosearch
From youtube there are around 44,000,000 videos, Google Video has around 4,000,000 videos ( http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=site%3Avideo.google.com ) and the rest are from 3rd parties.
To restrict your search to Google Video, try site:video.google.com. The site: operator doesn’t work with 3rd party providers yet.
Comment by Ionut Alex. Chitu | June 13, 2007
I personnally found 880 millions total and over 500 millions for Youtube
See http://media-tech.blogspot.com/2007/06/un-milliard-de-vidos-sur-internet-50.html
Comment by Didier DURAND | June 14, 2007
Assuming the 44 million is correct, that equates to about 220 terabytes, a total of $50,000 or so 2 store it (terabyte drives are about $200 each these days). Much like Yahoo stock was through the roof for years and ran off just 5 regular PCs between 100-200Mhz (old stuff :), so to is the PERCEPTION that Google & others require lots of expensive hardware. The fact is if they DO actually buy lots of hardware, it’s sitting there doing nothing. It takes very little to serve files, as my Yahoo example illustrates ;D
Comment by Blah | March 6, 2008
Here are a couple interesting links about a PC room that holds a mirror of the internet - what Google pretends requires entire buildings to store and index bla bla. It’s just a scam 2 convince people 2 invest. The only thing special about google is their link ranking algorhythm - probably patented. U can fit the net on just a few servers now ‘cuz drives R gettin’ BIG!
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
http://www.archive.org/web/hardware.php
www.waybackmachine.org/
Comment by Blah | March 6, 2008