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April 07, 2006

Browsing Yahoo! Video Search by Source

Most people find videos on the web by typing keywords into a video search engine. As an editor for the Yahoo! Video Search home page, I often use the search engine in a slightly different way. When I’m looking for cool videos to feature, I usually don’t have a specific query in mind. Instead, I just watch loads of random videos and keep track of the good ones. I need the ability to browse the index without having to target a specific query.

So I utilize a trick that I’d like to share.

The search syntax is: site:domain.com

This lets me browse what’s in the Yahoo! Video Search index from a specific site — without limiting the search to a specific query.

For example, try: site:vsocial.com, site:break.com, site:grouper.com, site:putfile.com , and site:vimeo.com.

These searches will show you everything from each particular site that the Yahoo! Video Search engine has indexed. Keep in mind that the code won’t work for every site you may try, but our coverage is increasing all the time.

Christopher Akhavan
Yahoo! Video Search Editor

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Comments

  1. Thanks

    Posted by: J haley | April 9th, 2006 3:51 pm

  2. While video search is a great idea and your tip was quite helpful, you should really remove the “Play Video” link. At least let the person go to the site where you found the video. Otherwise it is plain and simple copyright violation.

    Posted by: Cellinis | April 12th, 2006 4:09 am

  3. Wow, you index Google Video, too. ;)

    Posted by: Mike | April 12th, 2006 8:08 am

  4. i ve done something that has cut me off completely with yahoo games. thats about all i use my computer for. please tell me what i can do to get back into yahoo games.

    Posted by: john harvey | April 19th, 2006 12:06 pm

  5. I’m looking for a yahoo cribbage game page from 1998-1999 I’m doing for a story. Any archived copy would be greatly appreciated

    Posted by: david | May 6th, 2006 7:10 pm

  6. I can’t get back in yahoo games since my computer crashed I put mt screen name in and it will not let me in. Why is that I realy enjoy playing on yahoo. So please help me.
    bff1930@aol.com Thank you

    Posted by: elkman02 | August 25th, 2006 12:41 pm

  7. why cant i get in yahoo to play spades ive been trying for 4 days wont let me play why

    Posted by: nancy martin | September 22nd, 2006 12:31 am

  8. Does anyone know whats going on with literati games in Yahoo? Please post if you do.
    Thanks

    Posted by: Dorothy Paul | February 24th, 2007 4:30 pm

  9. Thank for excellent explanation

    Posted by: Ksyusha | April 26th, 2007 12:23 pm