As many of you may have already noticed, YouTube has thoughtfully inserted a search bar at the top of their embedded videos to make it easier for you to find other relevant videos. Problem is – it’s ugly!
Which do you prefer?:
Which looks better to you?
So I did a little search to find out if anyone else disliked this little “upgrade,” and I found quite a few. The people over at TechCrunch were kind enough to post a link to the Google site to explain the mods you need to do to get rid of it.
Pretty easy actually, you just need to add &showsearch=0 to the end of the video ID in SWF URL of the embed code (what???). If you don’t know what that looks like, I am going to give you an example below of the embed code for the video Pride by Syntax which I have posted on my sidebar.
The original embed code looks like this:
<object width=”425″ height=”344″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/BvuU3×9TpZM&hl=en&fs=1″></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/BvuU3×9TpZM&hl=en&fs=1″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”425″ height=”344″></embed></object>
…and the new code looks like this:
<object width=”425″ height=”344″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/BvuU3×9TpZM&hl=en&fs=1&showsearch=0“></param>
<param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/BvuU3×9TpZM&hl=en&fs=1&showsearch=0” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”425″ height=”344″></embed></object>
It is really easy considering I am no techie…but thank you to those that are that made this an easy fix.
