Google News adds YouTube news videos

Google News is now integrating YouTube news videos into its front-page results. YouTube icons now appear next to video results under the aggregated news topic. Nearly 14 million unique visitors access Google News monthly, according to Compete.com, so providing this video discovery mechanism to such a large audience could boost YouTube's views even more.

The videos running with Google News stories also were mainly premium, professionally created news content, so they likely will command higher CPMs than most of YouTube's other videos. The videos play in an embedded player, and--during a cursory test--took a little while to load, though there were no serious usability issues.

The update seems to have come at a small cost, however, as Google News was down for large portions of the East Coast Thursday morning for a couple of hours. 

For more:
- see the CNET.com story here 

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