YouSearch: Watch YouTube Videos In Chrome Without Leaving Current Page

YouSearch is a nifty add-on for Google Chrome that helps you search and watch YouTube videos without requiring you to open a new tab or browser window.

The add-on isn’t complicated. Once installed, it shows up as a small icon in the Chrome extensions bar. If you click on it, it pops up a small Google search box that helps you search YouTube.

If you look carefully at the above screenshot, you’ll see that there is a link to upload your video. That means, you can upload a video to YouTube directly by following that link.

The search results page, that comes up when you search for a video using some keywords, isn’t the traditional page with video titles and descriptions. Instead, it is a page showing only the top video previews for that query, and is neatly organized in the small space.

So when I did a search for Chariots of fire (remember?  the movie with the famous soundtrack from Vangelis), I could see related videos and I had to click on the one I’d want to play.

The video starts playing in a larger screen, and also has other video thumbnails arranged below it in case you want to switch to a different video.

That’s all the extension does. Simple and easy to use.

So why would you need it ? If you spend more and more time on YouTube everyday and are usually lost there watching one video after another, then this add-on could help you get back to work easily, since it doesn’t require you to go to the main site where the content is more tempting.

Check out YouSearch for Google Chrome.