Stanford student creates YouTube Instant, gets job offer from YouTube CEO

September 10, 2010 | Matthew Lynley

Stanford student Feross Aboukhadijeh, in a nod to the recent unveiling of Google Instant, has created a real-time search engine for YouTube videos — and it’s caught the attention of YouTube CEO Chad Hurley.

After spotting YouTube Instant, Hurley Tweeted over to Aboukhadijeh, saying he loved the idea and asking if he wanted a job.

Aboukhadijeh, who goes by the Twitter handle FreeTheFeross, sent a message back to find out if Hurley was serious about the offer — because, after all, this is the Internet. It looks like Hurley was, indeed, quite serious.

Aboukhadijeh announced the launch of YouTube Instant on Y Combinator’s Hacker News feed, a news aggregation site similar to Digg and Reddit. It behaves much the same way Google Instant does — as a viewer types in the video they are looking for, the engine guesses the video and begins playing it immediately.

YouTube, which was acquired by google four years ago for about $1.65 billion, might finally turn profitable this year according to some analyst predictions.

We’ve reached out for confirmation from YouTube and will update when we hear back.

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Tags: automated search, autonomous search, Google Instant, real time search, YouTube Instant

About the Author, Matthew Lynley

Matthew Lynley is VentureBeat's GreenBeat writer. He graduated from the University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francisco, Calif. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron.

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you know. the guessing thing may be looked at as a wonderful time saver, however, there is some joy in not being interrupted and finishing a thought, no? Wait I'm not done. Just kidding go ahead you can answer now.
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With that kind of business sensibility, no wonder Youtube still isn't making profit.
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And when was the last time YOU created a video sharing site bought over by Google, sir?
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OMG..talk about instant job offer..
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lucky guy
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Muito bom o trabalho deste rapaz, merece mesmo ir trabalhar no Google…
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