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January 24, 2005

Video Search Goes Mainstream

Since our initial release of Yahoo! Video Search in December, Video Search has been attracting a lot of attention (Steve Rubel, Joseph Scott, Marc Canter, and others), and the momentum has continued to build. Clearly a lot of you are interested in finding video on the Web.

As Gary 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:

We're also integrating it into tabs on search.yahoo.com.

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, AtomFilms, and IFILM. In addition, you can already find video content that we've indexed thanks to content publishers adopting Media RSS (community). For example, try searching on blogs to see blog-related video content.

Our newest feed partner is TVEyes who will allow us to index 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 vloggercon last week, and will be writing up his thoughts here soon.

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Comments

What a coincidence.

Posted by: Brian | January 24, 2005 10:40 PM

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

Posted by: Nathan Enns | January 25, 2005 05:05 AM

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?

Posted by: Thomas Hawk | January 25, 2005 02:40 PM

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!

Posted by: Thomas Hawk | January 25, 2005 02:42 PM

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.

Posted by: Halil | January 31, 2005 04:55 PM

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

Posted by: Mike | February 4, 2005 09:19 AM

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.

Posted by: Andy Volk | February 4, 2005 03:00 PM