Video Search Goes Mainstream
Since our
release of Yahoo! Video
Search in December, Video Search has been attracting a lot of
attention (
Rubel,
Scott,
Canter, and others), and the momentum has continued to
build. Clearly a lot of you are interested in finding video on the
Web.
As
Price said earlier today, we’ll be adding a Video Search tab on
the front page of Yahoo! tonight, making it easier to find and
use:
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We’re also integrating it into tabs on
As our video search index continues to grow, you’ll see more
content coming from our growing list of feed partners, which includes
Real Networks,
find video content that we’ve indexed thanks to content publishers
adopting Media RSS
(community).
For example, try searching on
to see blog-related video content.
Our newest feed partner is
closed captioned broadcast video content not previously available
online, enabling you to “search inside the video.” Their sources
include broadcast video from Bloomberg, BBC, and BSkyB–that’s just
for starters.
Thanks for all the feedback and stay tuned for more from Video
Search in 2005.
Andy Volk
Video Search Product Manager
PS. Our Media RSS evangelist, David Hall, was at
will be writing up his thoughts here soon.
What a coincidence.
Very interesting timing indeed but I can’t blame them for staying on top of the competition.
So why don’t you guys buy TiVo and incorporate video search and delivery to their TiVo boxes as well as build some “right click” technology where people can schedule video programming to their TiVo via their PC remotely?
By the way have you guys seen what comes up when you search for Yahoo on Google’s new Video Search, the top listing at present is supermodel Petra Nemcova!
http://thomashawk.com/2005/01/guess-what-you-get-when-you-search-for.html
Nice work on your part!
Yahoo video search really isn’t that great. I mean, it is better than Google’s search, but come on. Everytime I do a search on Yahoo, i get inundated with tons of film clips. It takes forever to find what I am looking for. If you have this problem, I suggest you go to BlinkxTV and check it out. Yes, you get a lot of returns on your search, still, but you can refine them. That way, you don’t have to download every clip to find what you are looking for.
Sorry if this is a basic question but if you do a video search, and view the video through say a windows media player, is it actually downloading the video to your PC at all?
Thanks
Mike
Mike: To answer your question, whether the video is streamed or downloaded to your computer depends on the site hosting the video delivers that file via streaming or download.
Video Search indexes both streaming and downloadable video files, so this will vary from file to file.