Youtube account owners can not only upload and view videos on the world’s most popular video hosting website, they can also write comments and rate videos with a simple up and down vote. These ratings sometimes can help you make decisions about a video before you have watched it. The problem here is that YouTube does not display those ratings on many pages. Video ratings are not displayed on the homepage, not on searches and not when you click on a user profile.
You only get to see video ratings when you click on the video to open the play video screen on YouTube where you can watch the video.
That’s a usability issue, considering that many users would use the ratings of a video to determine whether they want to watch it or not. While it certainly should not be the only thing you are looking at, it can move your decision into a certain direction. Would you rather watch a video with 1000 positive and no negative ratings or one with no positive and 1000 negative ratings about a topic of interest?
YouTube Ratings Preview is a free extension for the Google Chrome web browser that adds video ratings to all YouTube pages. It does so elegantly and without changing the look and feel of the YouTube website.
Once installed you will notice a new tiny bar below each video on the video hosting site that displays the number of positive votes in green and the number of negative votes in red.
You can furthermore hover over the bar to see the positive vote count as a percentage value and the number of total ratings a video has received on the site.
Google Chrome users can download and install YouTube Ratings Preview from the Chrome Web Store.
Firefox users; Do you know of a comparable add-on for the web browser? Let me know in the comments.
© Martin Brinkmann for gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials, 2011. | Permalink |
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