How to Remove the Search Bar from YouTube
You can remove the search bar from appearing in the your embedded video. Yes you can.
Simply add &showsearch=0 to the end of each embed.
For example:
Regular Youtube Embed Code:
<object width=”425″ height=”344″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/jMa0esP4sBA&hl=en &fs=1″></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/jMa0esP4sBA&hl=en&f s=1″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”425″ height=”344″></embed></object>
Modified Youtube Embed Code:
<object width=”425″ height=”344″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/jMa0esP4sBA&hl=en &fs=1&showsearch=0 “></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/jMa0esP4sBA&hl=en&f s=1&showsearch=0 ” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”425″ height=”344″></embed></object>
From YouTunbe - embedded player parameters
showsearch
Values: 0 or 1. Default is 1. Setting to 0 disables the search box from displaying when the video is minimized. Note that if the rel parameter is set to 0 then the search box will also be disabled, regardless of the value of showsearch