YouTube Instant

YouTube Instant
Developer(s)Feross Aboukhadijeh
Initial release10 September 2010 (2010-09-10)
Written inJavaScript, jQuery
Available inEnglish
Websiteytinstant.com

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]

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]

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  6. ^ Kafka, Peter. "A Completely Excellent Way to Waste 15 Minutes: "YouTube Instant"". Retrieved 2010-09-12.
  7. ^ Beckham, John (2010-09-16). "YouTube Instant and Instant Search For Images & Google Maps". ICT Magazine. Archived from the original on 2011-07-05.
  8. ^ John 10:10 AM (CST). "[H]ard|OCP - Youtube and Maps Instant". Hardocp.com. Archived from the original on 2012-09-10. Retrieved 2010-09-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ Lynley, Matthew (September 10, 2010). "Stanford student creates YouTube Instant, gets job offer from YouTube CEO". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2010-09-12.
  10. ^ Lynley, Matthew (September 10, 2010). "Instant student creates YouTube and contacted via Twitter to work on the video site". Retrieved 2010-09-12.
  11. ^ "College Kid Makes 'YouTube Instant,' Gets Instant YouTube Job Offer". Gawker.com. Retrieved 2010-09-12.