Google Search Stories
Watching some political stuff on Youtube and saw the ad on the side was for Google. It's rare you see Google marketing their stuff, but it seems when they do they tend to use their own platforms to do it. And why not they have access to billions of pageviews and they already know that people using Google like Google.. As well as tons of other info about you from using their services and interacting with Adsense all over the web.
Search Stories is a YouTube Channel that features the Google search bar. There are already a bunch of episodes and you watch a 60 second plot unfold through a series of searches. They built a custom episode player with sleek effects and if you catch it as it's loading you'll see the default Flex busy mouse cursor. Google uses Flex, I'm pretty sure they use it for the YouTube player as well and some of their other Flash constructions but I wonder how it ties in to their relationship with Adobe. Since they offer API access and libraries in Flash and Flex you'd think they'd already have had to develop their own framework for working in Flash.. Then again maybe they just use the best tool for the job.
