Google to List YouTube Videos on Site

Google said Thursday that it would begin to allow users of its video search service to also search videos on YouTube. The company also seemed to indicate that Google Video was not going anywhere, contrary to some rumors.

The Mountain View, Calif. snapped up YouTube last year in a blockbuster $1.67 billion deal. However, since that acquisition, and its completion in November, both sites have operated separate of one another.

Beginning Thursday, users of Google Video would see videos from the popular social video site included in searches. When a user clicks on a video from YouTube, he or she would be taken to the site to view it.

Salar Kamangar, vice president of product management at Google, says this is what the company hopes to do with Google Video in the future: the ability to search for any video regardless of where it is located.

"This is part of Google's overall goal to give you the highest quality search results possible," he said. But he stressed that YouTube would remain an independent subsidiary of Google.

"Google will support YouTube by providing access to search and monetization platforms and, when/where YouTube launches internationally, to international resources," he added. "Today represents just the first step in our plan to bring you a comprehensive video search and content platform."