Google’s Metacafe Previews Use Google Video Player

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Weird little thing discovered by Ionut Alex: Google Video, which now indexes Metacafe and displays Metacafe results in its search results, has a preview feature that previews Metacafe videos in Google Video results. The weird thing is that the preview uses the familiar Google Video player, instead of using Metacafe’s video player, and it works just fine. I wonder if this could be used for embeds, letting sites use the Google Video player for both Google Video and Metacafe videos?
For some reason, the link still reads “Go To Google Video”, but it goes to Metacafe. Also, Metacafe videos rank really, really bad on Google Video, almost impossible to find. Plus, Metacafe videos get a preview thumbnail in Google Web Search, but Google Video and YouTube videos get a preview thumbnail and the abillity to play the video right from the results page.

Original post by Nathan Weinberg