This is disruptive disintermediation on a scale that I don’t think any media company has yet begun to imagine. And of course Philipp’s example illustrates that it’s not just big media companies that will be disintermediated — it’s everybody.
“Rat Monster Joke” returns a result from YouTube competitor Metacafe. What’s odd, however, is that the Flash player below the result isn’t from Metacafe - it’s a Google Video player, streaming the video form Google’s servers. All the links h
Video sites that seem to get a thumbnail are: Yahoo Video MetaCafe YouTube Google Video MySpace Vimeo
Google’s new feature that makes videos appearing in the universal search results playable right on the search result page is also hugely disruptive (from Search Engine Land): It certainly makes you think twice about shunning video distribution through
