With millions of videos housed under various topics in its database, YouTube has become a search engine to many people online.  You can find a topic like guitar playing on the YouTube as well as in any search engine.  Sometimes, the visual insights you get from the videos are more informative and enlightening at a much shorter time than getting all those sites you have to go through in a typical search engine result.

It is not surprising that many students, housewives, clerics and professionals find YouTube a more direct search engine that delivers the results they want after clicking the enter button on their PCs without having to swim through various websites related to their searches.