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Ask HN: How Bing is indexing YouTube videos?

by the_arun on 5/29/25, 9:55 PM with 1 comments

If you go to Bing videos on Edge browser & search for any YouTube content, you can play them without any ads. Eg: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+free+movies&FORM=HDRSC4

Also I don't see links to youtube domain itself for videos. It is being served from Bing.

1. Can anyone index youtube videos & openly share?

2. Video quality is not as good as YouTube but there are no ads. This may be good for consumers who want to avoid ads.

3. Isn't this a copyright issue?

  • by phillipseamore on 5/29/25, 10:23 PM

    Just tested the url you provided and clicked the first video - got ads.