YouTube Instant
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YouTube Instant[1] is a real-time search engine built and launched in September 2010 by nineteen-year-old[2] college student and Facebook-software-engineer intern[3] Feross Aboukhadijeh of Stanford University that allows its users to search the YouTube video database as they type. It follows on the heels of Google Instant,[4] and has been described as a "novelty toy",[5] a "prototypal digit to tie the "instant" bandwagon"[6] as well as a "completely excellent way to waste 15 minutes".[7]
Developer(s) | Feross Aboukhadijeh |
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Initial release | 10 September 2010 (2010-09-10) |
Written in | JavaScript, jQuery |
Available in | English |
Website | ytinstant |
Aboukhadijeh was offered a job from YouTube CEO Chad Hurley shortly after he created the site.[8][9][10][11] At the point of YouTube Instant's creation, Aboukhadijeh was a summer intern at Facebook,[2] and has said that he was working on a secret Facebook project.[3]