Very interesting article. Thank-you. For the moment, I'll continue to "Google it" before I "YouTube it". - James Hoang

+1 Jason! - Susan Beebe

Excellent. We are testing YT PPC and it works well. Those who say Google can't monetize miss the boat! it's more than just pre-roll! - Alan Edgett

Jason, Susan: But this is a phoneme for video technology and its vision. Video/text evolution in this writing seems to me like TV/radio at past. - Erhan Erdogan

@ Venkat, Jason, Rick et al: It's still an interesting observation. This might become the norm, especially in countries with a good bandwidth availability. - Joy-Mari Cloete from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Alex, Although I don't think that video will ever replace text, there's no doubt that video is going to gain huge ground in the next 5-10 years and, supplement a lot of our common text-only activities. We've already started seeing the rise of video blogging as well as "video comment" options on popular blog commenting platforms like Disqus. Video services like Vimeo combine the two so that people can comment on videos...there's a lot of blending going on...and there's no doubt that as internet goers become more comfortable with Video over text, the democratization of video capture technologies will likely lead to a substantial increase in video based user generated content. Specializing in search for video content will definitely be big business. Of course, it won't replace text overall. It will only be a pervasive supplement for people who prefer video as a medium over text. One thing's for sure - Ian's kid won't be alone. There will be millions of people that start to go to video first before a text sea - Steffan Antonas from FriendFeed MT Plugin