Google Video has now started indexing videos from all over the web, including those non-flash videos which are not hosted on sites like YouTube and Metacafe. Google won’t convert videos into FLV from other formats like AVI, MPEG, WMV or MOV, so some videos won’t play online. You’ll have to download such videos in order to view them.
Unfortunately, Google Video won’t tell you which page linked to the video, so that you can go to the page and read what others wrote about the same video. They haven’t figured out a way to get information about the video, which will help them rank videos in search result page. Most search results are dominated by videos from YouTube, Google Video, so I’d assume that Google ranks videos based only on number of views and ranking. Probably, those are the only limitations that I can see.
[Via: Google Operating System]
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