Comments on: Video Search: Now more Flashy and Fresh than ever before http://www.ysearchblog.com/2005/07/14/video-search-now-more-flashy-and-fresh-than-ever-before/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:49:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: suzan http://www.ysearchblog.com/2005/07/14/video-search-now-more-flashy-and-fresh-than-ever-before/comment-page-1/#comment-1536 suzan Wed, 28 Sep 2005 05:08:00 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2005/07/14/video-search-now-more-flashy-and-fresh-than-ever-before/#comment-1536 hey this is really great show hey this is really great show

]]> By: Random webmaster http://www.ysearchblog.com/2005/07/14/video-search-now-more-flashy-and-fresh-than-ever-before/comment-page-1/#comment-1535 Random webmaster Tue, 09 Aug 2005 04:26:25 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2005/07/14/video-search-now-more-flashy-and-fresh-than-ever-before/#comment-1535 On the off-chance that someone actually reads this - as a webmaster of a small site with just a few videos for a few friends, I really, really, _really_ dislike your video search. I gave my videos descriptive names, and now they're turning up high in the index of dozens of searches - most unrelated - and people are wasting my bandwidth like crazy by watching these things. I updated my robots.txt as soon as I noticed (roughly three weeks ago), but you still haven't updated your index to reflect that. Have a care for the little people, would you??! Seriously, it seems to me that you could've anticipated problems like that and had some scheme in place to monitor robots.txt files for sites with a lot of new videos in the index. On the off-chance that someone actually reads this – as a webmaster of a small site with just a few videos for a few friends, I really, really, _really_ dislike your video search. I gave my videos descriptive names, and now they’re turning up high in the index of dozens of searches – most unrelated – and people are wasting my bandwidth like crazy by watching these things.
I updated my robots.txt as soon as I noticed (roughly three weeks ago), but you still haven’t updated your index to reflect that. Have a care for the little people, would you??! Seriously, it seems to me that you could’ve anticipated problems like that and had some scheme in place to monitor robots.txt files for sites with a lot of new videos in the index.

]]> By: Meng http://www.ysearchblog.com/2005/07/14/video-search-now-more-flashy-and-fresh-than-ever-before/comment-page-1/#comment-1534 Meng Tue, 19 Jul 2005 03:12:19 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2005/07/14/video-search-now-more-flashy-and-fresh-than-ever-before/#comment-1534 It is really good to know that Yahoo! video search can support flash animation now. But I just doubt how many times users will really go to advanced search to select the format options (do you have any log data to figure that out?). Maybe another option could be like what Amazon does, listing the searched results by categories, and then asking users to refine the results by selecting the categories. In this case, it could be listing the video formats with the searched results. In addition, video search is a more iterative process comparing to simple text search, so it would be better that the system could provide better ways to help users to modiy their queries. um, first time using this blog, what does the "Type Yahoo here" mean? don't know what to type, I left it blank, and just couldn't post the message. It is really good to know that Yahoo! video search can support flash animation now. But I just doubt how many times users will really go to advanced search to select the format options (do you have any log data to figure that out?).

Maybe another option could be like what Amazon does, listing the searched results by categories, and then asking users to refine the results by selecting the categories. In this case, it could be listing the video formats with the searched results.

In addition, video search is a more iterative process comparing to simple text search, so it would be better that the system could provide better ways to help users to modiy their queries.

um, first time using this blog, what does the “Type Yahoo here” mean? don’t know what to type, I left it blank, and just couldn’t post the message.

]]> By: Kevin http://www.ysearchblog.com/2005/07/14/video-search-now-more-flashy-and-fresh-than-ever-before/comment-page-1/#comment-1533 Kevin Sun, 17 Jul 2005 17:45:19 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2005/07/14/video-search-now-more-flashy-and-fresh-than-ever-before/#comment-1533 This is a nice addition. However, how does Yahoo find video? I am the publisher of the educational site FloridaSprings.org which has been top ranked by Yahoo for the term florida spring for a couple of years. However, it can't seem to see any video (rm,mov or swf)files on the site. Same with the site www.organtransplants.org which was a Yahoo Pick. It has high quality Flash presentations throughout. This is a nice addition. However, how does Yahoo find video? I am the publisher of the educational site FloridaSprings.org which has been top ranked by Yahoo for the term florida spring for a couple of years. However, it can’t seem to see any video (rm,mov or swf)files on the site. Same with the site http://www.organtransplants.org which was a Yahoo Pick. It has high quality Flash presentations throughout.

]]> By: Guillaume http://www.ysearchblog.com/2005/07/14/video-search-now-more-flashy-and-fresh-than-ever-before/comment-page-1/#comment-1532 Guillaume Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:29:49 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2005/07/14/video-search-now-more-flashy-and-fresh-than-ever-before/#comment-1532 Nice, I was able to to get old flash animations I had seen many years ago. Very convenient indeed. Nice, I was able to to get old flash animations I had seen many years ago. Very convenient indeed.

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