Google Video Hidden Categories

Posted by Martin in Hacking  Tags: , ,

7

Jul


Have you ever uploaded a movie to Google Video ? You can chose one of 38 categories like sports or business for the movie. Now, when you visit the Google Video page again you only have the option to click on a few categories on the top. There is no option to search most of the 38 categories: Until now.

To search a special category you use the “genre:” command. If you would like to search for the keyword fun only in the comedy category you would type in fun genre:comedy in the search box. The following paragraph lists all 38 category names of Google Video.

  1. Educational
  2. Instructional
  3. Stock Footage
  4. Comedy
  5. Mature Adult
  6. Science and Technology
  7. Ads and Promotions
  8. News
  9. Animation
  10. Sports
  11. Home Video
  12. Documentary
  13. Business
  14. Dance
  15. Drama
  16. Foreign
  17. Gaming
  18. Horror
  19. Movie trailer
  20. Nature
  21. Political
  22. Religious
  23. Romance
  24. Special Interest
  25. Thriller
  26. Travel
  27. TV Show
  28. Western
  29. Movie Short
  30. Movie Feature
  31. Faith and Spirituality
  32. Gay and Lesbian
  33. Science Fiction & Fantasy
  34. Action and Adventure
  35. Children and Family
  36. Art and Expiremental
  37. Health And Fitness
  38. Independent

Thanks to jimmyr for finding this out.

Like such posts? Get updates via RSS NEWS FEED. Love Ghacks? Find out how you can help!

Spread The Article: Digg del.icio.us StumbleUpon Reddit Facebook Slashdot TwitThis YahooMyWeb Fark Mixx NewsVine

5 Users Commented In This Post

Subscribe To This Post Comment Rss Or TrackBack URL
Martin says, July 7th, 2006   

Oh sorry, forgot to add, look at the links and you see the categories.

gnome says, July 7th, 2006   

Hooray!!

Buzz of the Day 7th July 2006 » TechBuzz says, July 7th, 2006   

[...] Google Video Hidden Categories: Have you ever uploaded a movie to Google Video ? You can chose one of 38 categories like sports or business for the movie. Now, when you visit the Google Video page again you only have the option to click on a few categories on the top. [...]

jagjit says, July 8th, 2006   

that was useful piece of information
thanks for sharing

Siddhartha Gandhi says, October 8th, 2006   

Thanks, this will be great information for additional channels in my software GVTV (Google Video TV), located at http://xruntime.googlepages.com

Leave Your Comments Below
Hello, please leave your thought below

Please Note: Each comment will be manually approved by an admin. There is no guarantee that a comment will be posted. Please do not submit the comment multiple times.