No doubt, videos and multimedia at large has taken over the ICT industry over the past couple of years with Big companies like Facebook, Twitter and others adopting the divisive feature in their different modules.
Google never to be left out has begun a testing move towards putting one of the most divisive features of the modern web experience, the auto-playing video, directly into search results which implies that when you make searches on Google Engine, a video feature is likely to accompany your search result just like in Facebook and Twitter.

The video feature is likely to be placed at the top of the search results as part of knowledge panel for certain searches as per spotted by Jennifer Slegg on one of the search specialist - the SEM post. This, therefore, implies that respective searches for media like movies, TV shows information are directly incorporated with their video feature in the right-hand sidebar, automatically playing without ads of any kind.

Facebook seemed to be the first to work towards the idea of autoplay video feature in their News feed despite being faced with complaints and boos from their users. Google on its own, should have considered that any move leading to altering search result pages could prove divisive if not non-compelling for its users too.

But one key major fact the Big "G" is to understand is that; Facebook will only go as far as engaging and entertaining its users with their auto-play video feature while Google search users are more or less in for information and ideas never for entertainment. Also, it should be recalled that Google was also the one that integrated Adblock in their Chrome Browsers to ward of certain levels of ads thereby increasing user search experience.
Having started with the integration of Youtube videos into searches, I think is the time they get those videos/media playing automatically with ease.

Culled from: - https://www.nairaland.com/3994214/googles-direct-auto-play-video-feature