Playing around with Google Search Stories and more

Playing around with Google Search Stories and more

“Hell froze over” when Google decided to actually pay for an ad during the Super Bowl in the United States this year. The ad however was  an ‘oldie’, a video called ‘Parisian Love’ in which searches on Google were shown. It was a nice video which had some response to it. But Google now decided it was gonna do more with that video and gave users the opportunity to create one of those videos themselves. They created Google (YouTube) Search Stories.

By simply putting in search terms, choosing where the search should go (images, web, blogs etcetera) and choosing the music you can make your very own ‘Parisian Love‘. Something which many now have done over the past few days. And so have I…

I decided to play around a little with the functionality and create my own video. You can find the result here:

What do you think? I must say it was pretty easy to create the actual video, but there were a couple of things I didn’t like. You don’t really have much control over it. Google decides which way the ‘camera’ rolls,

what you get to see and how long it shows the results. Plus because I didn’t like the results right away I kept re-doing it over and over so in the end it still took quite some time…

Plus, you can only see Google results (I know, the reason for Google doing this is to create more attention to searches, but still…).

So… I decided to take a shot at it myself using Camtasia. I used only one ‘take’ so sorry for the less quality in video, the ‘beauty mistakes’ and some typos. But in the end it took me less time than doing the Google story. Here’s the result:

So, what do you think, am I up for an Oscar? Guess not… but it does show that with a little bit of effort you can do stuff yourself which Google hands you. But then again, if you are ‘lazy’ things like Google Search Stories can be quite handy ;).