One of the problems with most video sharing services is that in order to share a clip with friends and family that you don't want broadcasted to the public, they have to get an account and log-on to verify they're on your list of friends. How many times have you heard: "Yeah, I got the link but I had to get an account or something so I gave up."?
You may already know that Google offers "unlisted" videos. When a video is unlisted you can't get to it via search or category browsing. You get a permanent link to your video that you can send to friends and family.
Now, how do you verbally tell someone how to get to your video, without using a lengthy URL? Or, how can they find all your videos easily without searching for that latest URL you sent?
Well, none other than our own CEO Dave Habiger offers a tip for using Google video to share with friends and family. (And you thought he was just a suit who does quarterly earnings calls! Nope, he's a digital media addict like the rest of us.) This tip is especially useful for kids who want to share their videos with their friends.
Instead of "unlisting" your video, Googlewhack it. What is Googlewhacking? It's a curiously addictive pastime (er, waste of time) where you try to drive Google search results to a single answer. Popularized and vigorously pursued by Dave Gorman, it can now be applied to your own content to "hide" it from the rest of the world (excepting the most tenacious Googlewhackers).
When you upload your video, give it a two word combination name that you think no one would ever search for, like "banjotomato". You can separate the words (banjo tomato), too, but there may be a few more results when someone searches since those words could be found individually in a video's description.
Now, just tell your friends to go to Google video and search for "one word: banjotomato" and there's your video. (Note: it may take a few hours for it to show up in Google's search.) Have fun!
P.S. You would be amazed at how hard it is to get 1 result when searching the web using two words in Google. Even something as disconnected as "goldendoodle Nebuchadnezzar" returns 29 results. It's a big world out there.