Google tests process videos from TikTok and Instagram in search results

Google is running a test in its mobile search app and mobile web in which videos from TikTok and Instagram are processed in the search results. They come in the ‘short videos’ section. Whoever clicks on it will be taken to the mobile website of those services.

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The Short Videos box already contained results from Google’s own Project Tangi, TikTok competitor Trell and YouTube Shorts. Instagram and TikTok have been added to this for a number of days. Google confirms to TechCrunch that this is a test with a limited group of users and that it is not yet certain whether TikTok and Instagram will remain integrated in the results.

This is the latest in a long line of additions to Google search results, which have long since gone beyond just websites. Depending on the search term, it now offers summaries of Wikipedia pages, sports results, news articles, frequently asked questions, tweets, videos, links to social media profiles and more.

Not only is it up to Google or Instagram and TikTok to remain so integrated into the Google results. If the two services themselves, respectively owned by Facebook and the Chinese ByteDance, do not want that, then it will also stop.