The invention provides a video display method and device and relates to the field of video search technology. The method comprises the steps that a video search term input by a user is received; the position and size of a cold start window are determined according to the video search term; video sets relevant to the video search term are acquired from a reverse index and divided into a new online video set and a non-new online video set according to uploading time; superior indexes are calculated according to the number of times of display, the click rate and the expected click rate of all videos in the new online video set; and all the videos with the superior indexes ahead in the new online video set are displayed in the cold start window of a search result display region, and all videos in the non-new online video set are displayed in a non-cold start window. In this way, the problem that display of the new online videos does not meet the demand of the user and is poor in quality, and consequently the recommendation success rate of the new online videos is lowered is solved, and the video display method and device have the advantage of increasing the recommendation success rate of the new online videos.