Direct link your favorite Hasselhoff with Google Video

There are few people who have benefitted more from online video than David Hasselhoff. For such a mainstream guy, he’s still somehow tailor-made for The Long Tail.

But this is really more a note about a new Google video feature than an ode to a TV star. Move over YouTube, because The Goog lets you link directly to any second in a video without having to download the whole dang thing. Paul Kedrosky has a much better example using a long Charlie Rose interview (redundant!), but I thought I’d stick to David Hasselhoff.

My top three moments in David Hasslehoff’s cover of “Hooked on a Feelin'”

1. Dressed as a polar bear, he catches a fish, puts it in his mouth, and runs away from several versions of himself.
2. He spins a video cube on his finger, Globetrotters-style.
3. Close-up celebratory fist, as if to say, “Yes! I am this good”.

Regardless of whether Hasselhoff is that good, this new Google Video feature is pretty cool. The only thing that would make it better is if it had voice commands: “Kit, take me to the polar bear scene.”