Comments on: Video Search Goes Mainstream

By: Andy Volk

Andy Volk — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 23:00:47 +0000

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.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 17:19:10 +0000

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

By: Halil

Halil — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 00:55:53 +0000

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.

By: Thomas Hawk

Thomas Hawk — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:42:31 +0000

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!

By: Thomas Hawk

Thomas Hawk — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:40:43 +0000

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: Nathan Enns

Nathan Enns — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:05:04 +0000

Very interesting timing indeed but I can’t blame them for staying on top of the competition.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 06:40:17 +0000

What a coincidence.