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May 31, 2006

The New Yahoo! Video – Discover, and Be Discovered!

Tonight we rolled out the new Yahoo! Video, an upgrade to our video search service that introduces more ways to find and share video programming, including the ability to upload your videos directly to Yahoo!

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Here’s a quick rundown of what’s available to you:

  • An entirely new face to the product, starting with the home page. Try browsing for what’s new and of interest on the Web using Featured and Popular lists and Category and Tag pages.
  • MyStudio where you can now upload, manage, and share your original content with Yahoo! users and the world.
  • A continued expansion of the largest video index, with more user submitted Media-RSS feeds, direct feeds from major video publishers, and video crawled from Web. Combined with user-uploaded content, it delivers a more open programming experience.
  • The introduction of Channels, which are groups of videos created by a common source. In the search results, we match channels to your query and display them in the left-column, when relevant, next to the video results. Just by uploading a single video, publishers begin creating their own individual channels. These can be saved to others’ Favorites page, or exported as a Media RSS feed and added to your My Yahoo! page or any other RSS reader.
  • MyFavorites page, where you can manage videos and channels you’ve added while searching. MyFavorites helps you keep up to date on channels you like, as well as bookmark your favorite videos. Favorites can also be exported as a Media RSS feed, for those who subscribe and follow online content using an RSS reader or to share with friends.
  • New ways to export and share videos with friends, whether by email or by sending links through Yahoo! Instant Messenger. For user-uploaded content, users can also copy and paste a player window into a blog or Web page.


That’s about it for now. If you are interested, please give the new service a spin and let us know what you think!

Ethan Fassett
Yahoo! Video

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Good first impression but what about search results RSS feeds? that would be a nice feature.

Posted by: pg | June 1, 2006 06:57 AM

The first video I clicked redirected me to music.yahoo.com but wouldn't play on my Mac. The second video I clicked took me to ifilm.com and then asked me to select the media plugin and connection speed I have. Both make for a sub-par experience.

I think Yahoo Video will have a hard time competing with YouTube and Google Video if it doesn't use Flash video on all the videos and let the videos *just play*.

Posted by: Richard K Miller | June 1, 2006 11:08 AM

Love the new video page. I have a quick question about your feed submission process - My site Blastro.com has submitted mrss 2.0 feed multiple times over the last few months but we do not appear in any of the video search results. Instead, sites that have scraped our content are showing up with deep links to our media files. Is there somebody who can help us get indexed properly?

Posted by: Ben Davis | June 1, 2006 12:02 PM

Requires Flash 8 which leaves out the Linux crowd.

Posted by: macewan | June 1, 2006 12:54 PM

The old beta video search was pretty efficient. Very simple and configurable it allowed to get easyly a lot of results and search thro them in a convenient way: THIS IS WHAT SEARCH ENGINE ARE ABOUT.

On the other hand the new layout is filled with a lot of secondary information and it doesn't allow to process a lot of information as before making the navigation throu the results much more slower and less efficient than before.

That said this new layout for the video search is a total faillure. The peoples at Google once showed to the world that simple, minimalist interface well designed a better and prefered by user to useless eye candy. After that all search engine ripped the Google style but were too late. For once Yahoo had some advance over Google on one point and simply ruined it with this new terrible layout full of useless eye-candies... bad, very bad.

Posted by: ZeK | June 2, 2006 05:59 PM

While the previous interface was pretty good, allowing to process a large amount of results easyly and in an efficient way, this new eye candy layout is a lot less good in a term of usability. Displaying less usefull informations (the videos peoples are searching for) and a lot more useless informations.

A total failure.

Posted by: Duck | June 2, 2006 06:05 PM

I want the old video search page back. This new one has way too much useless clutter, and since it's a SEARCH ENGINE, all I want it to do is search for the things I look for, not dazzle me with all these colors, and buttons, and featured things... and... and whatever else all this is. Is there any way to change it so I can get more than 10 results a page, like I used to? This is annoying, it requires far too many next page clicks to get through a large amount of hits.

Posted by: Andy | June 2, 2006 10:27 PM

I think that Yahoo trying to compete with YouTube, MySpace, PhotoBucket and another sucsessful websites.

Posted by: Sergey Rusak | June 2, 2006 10:59 PM

I think that Yahoo trying to compete with YouTube, MySpace, PhotoBucket and another sucsessful websites.

Posted by: Sergey Rusak | June 2, 2006 10:59 PM

Where's the API to retrieve the thumbnail of a given video? The Search API gives you that, but based on a search, not on a given video id.

Posted by: RBA | June 4, 2006 03:54 AM

Congratulations to all Yahoo! people . From now Video SYNTHESIS are available on Yahoo! sites
Internetnauts could create a DIGIT every day .
Create a CYBERSPACE of life , of time, of health!
Yahoonaut! Could ask and dream about
Yahoo!Video festival , about Yahoo!Video Grand Prize
Yahoo!Video Shcedule

We love You Yahoo!

Posted by: Vyacheslav Grzhibovskiy | June 4, 2006 01:03 PM

You know why can't you just be Yahoo, let the other sites be the other sites and be yourself. Us old folks don't like change. If I wanted Myspace I would be over there and if you don't stop changing I will be.

Posted by: Sherman40336 | June 7, 2006 07:47 PM

old video page was better as more video are seen on a single page .It is difficult to use the new one ,can i switch to an old page of video?

Posted by: bunny | June 13, 2006 10:52 PM

Well, to all those people who say Yahoo shouldn't get into this business, I believe that's not true. Yahoo was always a portal to the internet (atleast from 1997 when I started using it). So they should evolve and offer as much as they can. I'm not saying that they should crush small startup sites. But come on, YouTube is no small anymore. They are spending millions only on their bandwidth bills.

And who doesn't love a Flickr for videos? That's Yahoo Video.

Good job guys. Any if you fix all the Firefox/Linux issues that will be great. Just offering an embed media for Linux users where they can use mplayerplug-in/VLC would be perfect. Until Flash 9 which will be released in 2007 for Linux.

Posted by: Pooya | July 7, 2006 11:41 PM

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