YouTube Search to Show Chapter Thumbnails, Better Recommendations for Translated Videos

YouTube has announced new updates to its search function that it claims will make it easier for users to search and find new content on its platform. The Google-owned video-sharing platform will get more visual search features — such as the ability to preview chapters in a video — and better foreign language video recommendations. However, users will only be recommended videos with captions in their local language. YouTube’s search results will also show complementary results from Google Search with links to other websites and formats.The new features for YouTube were announced through a blog post. The video-sharing platform hasn’t announced the exact date of the rollout of these features but Gadgets 360 was able to verify some of the features. The Google-owned platform will show its users a thumbnail of the video and the thumbnail of its chapters with timestamps. This will allow users to directly jump to the part of the video they’re the most interested in.YouTube will let users browse through and skip to a video’s chapters from the search resultsPhoto Credit: Screenshot/ Gadgets 360YouTube’s blog post offers an example, “Let’s say you’re looking for a good sourdough recipe and want to work on your kneading technique.…
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