Web User - UK (2019-12-27)

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32 27Dec 2019-7Jan 2020

ReadYouTubecomments
whileyouwatch
Normally,you have toscrolldownto
read comments on avideo,which
meansmissing themain event. Thiscan
be resolved with abrowser tool called
SuperYouTube ( bit.ly/super491 ), which
turnsthe ‘sug gested videos’ area to the
right of thescreen into amulti-panel
section. Alongthe top, thereare options
to jump between Info (usually
positioned directly below avideo),
Comments and Videos. There’ snodelay
when fl ickingbetween thethree
options,and theoverall design is geared
towardletting youreadwhile youwatch
–though we take no responsibility for
thecomments on some videos.
SuperYouTube is sogood, in fact,
we’r enot sure whyGoogle doesn’ toffer
thefeature itself.

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should speedupyourbrowser and save batterylife
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Click theextension’stoolbar button forarangeof quick
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However, it’s in theadd-on’ssettings wherethe ‘auto’
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and,beneaththesearchbar,you’ll

findanoptiontoseevideosofyour

searchquery.Thetroubleisthat

theseresultsfromGoogleVideos

aretypicallyuncuratedandoften

onlylooselyrelatedtoyouractual

searchterms.

YouTubeIt(bit.ly/video4 91 )does

whatGoogleVideosshoulddo–

redirectsyoursearchtoYouTube,

soyoucanhomeinonwhatyou’re

lookingfor.Youdon’tneedtoset

anythingup–justinstallthe

extension,thenheadtoGoogle.

Whenyousearch,givetheextension

asecondtokickinandyou’llseethe

word Videoschangetoabigred

button that says YouTube It.

Afterclickingthis, you’re whis ked

away to thevideo-streamingsite

whereyou canviewthe search

results.Itmakes sensebecause

YouTubeiswherewe’re most likely

to end up when lookingfor videos.

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ChangeGoogle

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Run asearchonGoogle

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