Brilliant YouTube search upgrades

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But they're often long, and sometimes you're looking for something in particular within an hour-long video. Google will soon let you use its Gemini AI tool to ask questions about a YouTube video on an Android phone. But the cool tools I've got here work today on any platform you're using — Windows PC, Android, Chromebook, Mac, iPhone, iPad, or Linux! Today, I'll show you to dig through a YouTube video to find what you're looking for — as fast as possible. [Chris Hoffman, Author of Windows Intelligence] Chris Hoffman​ Author of [Windows Intelligence]()​ --------------------------------------------------------------- SPONSORED MESSAGE Before diving in to that, though, check out this video conferencing tech that just got better. [Goofy looking through binoculars](=)​ Choppy audio, blurry faces — do your virtual meetings feel too… virtual? ​[Try the all new Neat Bar Generation 2](=). It brings beautifully simple yet powerful audio and video quality to Zoom or Microsoft Teams. 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And it’s so easy to set up, literally anyone could do it. 🙌 Ideal for small- to medium-sized meeting spaces 🧠Automatically adjusts acoustics, framing, etc. based on # of attendees 😊 Includes touch-screen Neat Pad to effortlessly control meetings In sum: It’s so intuitive, you’ll forget it’s a virtual meeting. ​ ​ ➜ [Experience Neat Bar 2 and join the future of virtual collaboration!](=)​ [EXPERIENCE NEAT BAR 2 ➜](=) ​ Search within any YouTube video YouTube has a convenient search-within-a-video feature, but it's a little half-baked — and Google doesn't offer it on smartphones at all. ➜ Alongside YouTube's built-in tricks, the free [YouTubeSummaries.com]( and [YouTubeTranscript.com]( websites from Merlin AI will help you quickly dig through videos on every platform. ⌚ These tools will each take about 10 seconds to pull up and use. ⌨️ First, if you're using YouTube in a browser on PC, Chromebook, or Mac, use the built-in transcript feature! Click to expand the description box below a video, scroll to the bottom of the box, and click "Show transcript." [The "Show transcript" button for a video on YouTube.com.] Use the Ctrl+F search feature in your browser (that's Cmd+F if you're using a Mac) to search the transcript like you would any other web page. Click a line in the transcript to go directly to that spot in the video. [Using Ctrl+F to search a YouTube transcript in Chrome.] 🤔 This works well on desktop, but the YouTube smartphone mobile app doesn't offer a searchable transcript. Plus, that transcript can be tough to search — you have to search for exact words. 🤖 That's where an AI tool can help. [YouTubeSummaries.com]( is a convenient single-purpose web tool from the company behind [Merlin AI](=). It requires an account, but the free plan gives you enough credits to get convenient AI summaries of several YouTube videos each day. Just copy-paste the address of a YouTube video into the web-based tool. You can easily skim through a summary of what happens in a video — and click to go to specific parts of the video. [An AI summary of OpenAI's GPT-4o announcement.] 📖 For an alternate YouTube transcript solution, try [YouTubeTranscript.com]( — also from Merlin AI. This one is free and doesn't even need an account. You can use it as much as you like, and it's a great way to quickly pull up a searchable transcript of a YouTube video in a mobile web browser. Again, just copy-paste the address of a YouTube video into the web-based tool. Then, use your browser's built-in search feature (tap menu > Find on page in Chrome on Android) and search the page for whatever you like. Tap or click a line of text to jump directly to it in the video. Plus, there's a convenient "Copy entire transcript" button. You could even paste the entire transcript of a YouTube video into your AI assistant of choice — [ChatGPT](=), [Microsoft Copilot](, or [Google Gemini]() — and then ask questions about it. It's like having a preview of that chat-with-a-YouTube-video feature Google is working on! [A YouTube transcript of Google I/O's keynote.] 📌 You can access the [YouTube Summarizer]( and [YouTube Transcript tool]( in your device's web browser. 💰 These tools are all free. You get a little pile of "queries" each day for the YouTube summarizer — enough to summarize a few videos each day. Just wait until the next day (or look at [Merlin AI's paid plans]()) for more. 🕶 Merlin AI has a [standard-looking privacy policy](, but the company isn't getting much data on you — it will just know the YouTube videos you're asking about, naturally. Now, speaking of YouTube... ​ This Week's Cool Tools Quiz Which video platform did Google own before YouTube? Remember: NO CHEATING! Anyone can look up info on the web. Stick with the spirit of the game and test your actual knowledge without searching. It's just for fun, anyway! 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