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

September 10, 2010 1:27 PM
Matthew Lynley
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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.

  • http://www.providentpartners.net/blog Albert_Maruggi

    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.

  • http://twitter.com/jhtrico1850 John

    With that kind of business sensibility, no wonder Youtube still isn't making profit.

  • http://card.ly/raymondlau Raymond Lau

    And when was the last time YOU created a video sharing site bought over by Google, sir?

  • http://www.earnmoney-fromhome.com/blog2 bryanwongyh

    OMG..talk about instant job offer..

  • http://saamimatloob.blogspot.com/ Saami Matloob

    lucky guy

  • http://twitter.com/megaofertas Melhores Ofertas

    Muito bom o trabalho deste rapaz, merece mesmo ir trabalhar no Google…

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    thanks a lot for great post

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