Comments on: YouTube Quietly Adds Search to Embedded Video

By: Sol

Sol — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:26:06 +0000

With a little Googling I figured out how to disable it: How To Remove the Search Box From A YouTube Embed

By: YouTube Adds a Search Bar to Every Embedded Video | Technologizer

YouTube Adds a Search Bar to Every Embedded Video | Technologizer — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:17:45 +0000

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By: tb

tb — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:12:08 +0000

example: (figure it has th embed code:

http://www.youtube.com/cp/vjVQa1PpcFPqTQwzhGFBpdqrgIjUe5E9TS-zdpre2GI=&fmt=18&color1=000000&color2=0×003300&fs=1;showsearch=0;egm=0;rel=0“>

By: tb

tb — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:10:42 +0000

from the youtube api

showsearch
Values: 0 or 1. Default is 1. Setting to 0 disables the search box from displaying when the video is minimized. Note that if the rel parameter is set to 0 then the search box will also be disabled, regardless of the value of showsearch.
example:

By: rtbrokerage

rtbrokerage — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:28:42 +0000

I have a few YouTube videos (embedded) on my site, and the new search option looks terrible. If they don’t remove it or provide an option to remove it, I will have to un-embedded the videos. This is a bummer, because they they looked so nice before.

By: Vezquex

Vezquex — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:27:59 +0000

I just noticed this new feature. No kidding about “quiet”. This is the only article I could find about it! Te search box appears even when you pause the movie.

It looks fugly. I hope there is an option to remove it.

By: YouTube adds search box to start of embedded videos

YouTube adds search box to start of embedded videos — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:49:54 +0000

[...] you can reproduce it or know something more about it. So far, I found several articles and posts about a search box at the end of the movie, but I didn’t manage to find one about a search box [...]