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.

Original post by Nathan Weinberg