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You may have noticed the “Embedded Video Search” module we added to our blog awhile back (look to the right). It’s something that you can easily add to your website or blog as well. For more information, check out the How-To page for the Video Search solution. There’s also a Video Bar if you just want a vertical or horizontal strip of videos instead of the entire searcher.

Both of these are built on top of the Google AJAX Search API, and that team is always adding new features to improve these solutions.

– Tom Stocky, Product Marketing Manager

Do you believe in Friday the 13th?

I mean, it’s just another day right? I’ve always found that if you really believed in something, you can actually go about making that something happen. You’re in charge of your own fate sort-of-thing. Bad things supposedly happen on Friday the 13th, right? So technically, the day really doesn’t stand a chance. I mean, if you wake up already believing that you’re going to have a bad day, you’re going to trick yourself into believing that the day is already bad. And every single little thing that happens, such as spilling your coffee, will be because it’s Friday the 13th. So you spilled your coffee yesterday, too. But yesterday, it was because you were clumsy. But today, it’s not your fault. It’s because it’s Friday the 13th.

Which, by the way, also happens to be the last day to submit your favorite horror videos to the Google Horror Video Show! Share those videos with us at horrorvideos@google.com to ensure that your favorite video is included. Scour the Google Video site and your own video library - we just might give you the rest of the weekend to do it. We’ll show you the first group of terrifying flicks next week and you can start to vote on your favorites.

In the meantime, I’d recommend playing it safe this evening - stay home and snuggle up to a good video. Let these get you started:

Click here to watch “Cthulhu Lego!”
A Lego movie based on “At the Mountains of Madness” by HP Lovecraft.
31 sec

Click here to watch “How to… Overcome fear”
For successful living.
1 min

Click here to watch “ANTISOCIAL-BEHAVIOUR FILM TRAILER”
Jakob Kelser is a lonely man living in a run down house in the middle of a council estate, tormented by the continued abuse inflicted by local yobs. After weeks of aggravation, Jakob is frustrated, and in a last ditch attempt to once again lead a normal life, he plots his revenge on the unsuspecting youths. One by one they are “taught a lesson”. One by one they meet their deaths…
1 min 5 sec

And just in case you’re having a really bad day and need a pick-me-up, just follow the link below and hopefully this really cool mash-up will cheer you up. It’s just another example of a really innovative user who used Google Video and Google Maps to create something awesome:

http://bhendrix.com/wall/Gmaps_GVideo_Mashup_Rendezvous.html

Think you have an even cooler video? Upload it!