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Explore with AI Video Highlights

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Use AI to bridge between users’ needs and the vast library of video content.

ProductYoutube
Year2025

the issue

Users have had difficulty finding what they’re looking for on the Search Results Page (which was reflected in our metrics). The primary reasons we identified were the following.

Difficulty forming queries

Users have a hard time finding the right words

Content gaps

Content doesn’t exist or is not easily accessible

Results lack structure

Makes it difficult to discover subtopic adjacencies

With billions of creator videos with valuable content to comb through the search problem space has evolved to a summarization problem.

Highlights is an AI-generated overview on the search results page that helps users explore sub-intents of their query.

It efficiently pulls together content from multiple videos, presenting key topics and video segments to help users find exactly what they're looking for more efficiently, currently for travel & shopping categorical, info-seeking queries.

how it works

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User performs info-seeking long search query.

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AI identifies video clips and sub-topics related to the query.

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Clips and descriptions are fused to create a narrative of the overall topic.

Highlights Query
Highlights Clip