Last week Stanford University Student, Feross Aboukhadijeh, built something that will forever be known as his first brain child. It started as a bet by his roommate, but in three hours Feross had built YouTube instant. What that means is Feross created a Youtube search engine that sifts through all of Youtubes Millions and Millions of videos in Real-Time. It’s more advanced than Youtube’s current search engine, and works on more effective search parameters. When Aboukhadijeh came up with the idea he was a summer intern for Facebook. Within several hours of his sites publishing, he had mail boxes stuffed with email’s, a twitter that couldn’t keep up with itself, flooded servers, and a very real job offer from Youtube CEO Chad Hurley. Yesterday, September 13, he sat down at Google’s headquarters in San Bruno, California to discuss his future. “I’d like to finish college” Aboukhadijeh was quoted on CNN.com. "It's not as useful as Google Instant if you know exactly what you're looking for, since you're shown distracting YouTube videos on the way to your destination," Aboukhadijeh also said.
This site has done more than revolutionize how we will search Youtube. It has led to a number of other “instant” web sites by other computer programmers. Google maps instant allows users to search quickly for an address, or find new locations with vaguer searches by area. The creator Michael Hart also later posted on his blog an all encompassing “Instanise” where you can access multiple web portals from one site, all of which are instant sites. This trend seems to be driving the internet’s search engines in a new direction, where a focus on finding specific pages fast is the primary focus.
- Matt Tilley
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