How to remove search bar in embedded Youtube videos

You Tube embedded player search

You tube has made lots of changes to its site.One of the annoying parts in the changes is the Youtube search bar.This search bar keeps popping up whenever the user hovers over the video making them get irritated.The Google people have not given any option to avoid it.But, from the YouTube embedded player API hosted on Google Code we are able to device a solution to this.So, follow the below simple step to avoid search bar in embedded videos.

As always first get your embedded code from the You Tube site in a normal manner.
Now search for the phrase where it says &fs=0.
Exactly after that place the string ;&showsearch=0.
Don’t change any other parts of the code.
Simply use the new code to embed the video and Presto!It’s gone.

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Lucky Murari a.k.a Santosh Lakshman is an aspiring entrepreneur.He is an Electrical and Electronics engineering graduate from a prestigious institute in India.He has a varied experience in the fields of web programming technologies,online marketing and blogging.

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17 Comments to How to remove search bar in embedded Youtube videos

Kashif Mahmood says:

December 5, 2008 at 2:09 am

I will check if this works. Thanks for sharing

David says:

December 9, 2008 at 4:34 am

Works perfectly, thanks!

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March 2, 2009 at 3:40 am

Thanks for the tip. This helped me a lot in enhancing my newly built site

Jane@Blinds for Conservatory windows says:

March 20, 2009 at 10:29 am

Superb! I always wanted to know if this was possible.. thanks

makitadrills says:

April 2, 2009 at 5:32 am

this tips work perfectly. the search bar is annoying me. thanks

Siraj@Golf Clubs says:

April 8, 2009 at 10:27 am

Great, Thanks to share

Shawn@city county database says:

April 13, 2009 at 2:22 am

Thanks for this. I’ve been wondering how to get rid of the search bar.

Franklin@Cheap Flights says:

April 14, 2009 at 12:44 pm

Thanks for the tip – removing the search bar should really cut down the people that leave before watching the entire video.

bethany@makeup artist san antonio says:

June 26, 2009 at 9:00 pm

thank you! I hate that search bar that pops up! I was trying to take screenshots of YouTube videos, and it kept messing them up.

Fernando@Rapidshare Search says:

June 28, 2009 at 7:10 pm

Thanks, It’s really usefull. Do you know how to remove ads in video footer?

LuckyMurari says:

July 13, 2009 at 1:11 pm

It is a ready-made template

Ryan@Pennyfieds says:

July 22, 2009 at 3:58 pm

wow thats a neat trick! now I can remove those annoying search bars on my vids. thanks!
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LuckyMurari says:

July 23, 2009 at 4:06 pm

Glad that we could be of help

Mark Hostetler@sunrise mountain real estate says:

August 15, 2009 at 9:25 am

Lucky, thats strange I mean I don’t remember seeing Search Bar recently where ever I go and view videos which are from youtube, I will re visit those sites and see whether I ignored the search bar but as far as I remember I don’t see it, yeah at the end of the video they give the list of other videos which is good, maybe they updated their API since then? it’s been 6-7months now, any info?

LuckyMurari says:

August 17, 2009 at 3:06 pm

Yeah. They have updated their API since then. They were flooded by lot of people asking not to do it and hence they removed it owing to the feedback

Matt@Rugby DVD says:

August 26, 2009 at 1:00 am

This is a very useful tip, I have a few sites with youtube vids embedded into the templates, and I always like to keep them on site if possible. Thanks for the tip.