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VideoSearchEnginesWhat is a Video Search Engine? "A video search engine is a web-based search engine which crawls the web for video content. Some video search engines parse externally hosted content while others allow content to be uploaded and hosted on their own servers." **Wikipedia Types of Searches Agnostic Search - Search that is not affected by the hosting of video, where results are agnostic no matter where the video is located: blinkx, AltaVista, Dabble, etc. Non-agnostic - Search results are modified, or suspect, due to the large hosted video being given preferential treatment in search results: AOL Video, Google Video, Yahoo!, YouTube, vTap
Agnostic Video Search Engines: Who are some of the major players? ClipBlast! http://clipblast.com/ --ClipBlast! is the video search engine that focuses on the entire Video Web. By that we mean our technology discovers, crawls and continuously builds the world’s largest index of video, from all publishers of video, as well as hosting platforms like those referenced above. --Distribute tools and technologies built on the ClipBlast! platform, including widgets, custom players and our API, for greater reach and accessibility. dabble dabble: http://dabble.com/ --Dabble is human powered, so that we have a pure search platform, but layer human activity on top for discovery That human activity is very interesting, and can give context and relevance to searches in topic areas, in different times and places. --In the Search to Discovery continuum: Truveo, Pure Video, Blinkx, etc are all algorithmically powered and require the user to know what they are looking for….WeShow, StumbleUpon and Digg are all human powered, and therefore have limited selection as made by the paid for or free editors. Dabble takes the best of search and the best of discovery, and puts them together in a scalable way. Information from dabble and ClipBlast! taken from an article posted on the Alt Search Engines website, http://altsearchengines.com/2007/08/20/the-top-10-alternative-video-search-engines/ More Video Search Engines: -fooooo: http://en.fooooo.com/ -pixsy: http://www.pixsy.com/ (images and videos) -PureVideo: http://www.purevideo.com/ -VidSea: http://www.vidsea.com/ -Truveo: http://www.truveo.com/ (owned by major media company Time Warner) -blinkx: http://www.blinkx.com/ How do they work? -Some are human powered -Some are algorithmic -Some are a combination of both -It is generally acknowledged that speech to text is possible, though recently Thomas Wilde, the new CEO of EveryZing, acknowledged that Everyzing works 70% of the time when there is music, ambient noise or more than one person speaking. If newscast style speaking (one person, speaking clearly, no ambient noise) is available, that can rise to 93%. (From the Web Video Summit, San Jose, CA, June 27, 2007). Competition Video hosting services such as YouTube, Google Video, and Yahoo! Video "Our competitive advantage over YouTube – which is not a video search engine but a video hosting platform — is our proprietary technology that automatically discovers video content publishers, learns about their video and metadata, and continuously updates the world’s largest index of video from across the web." from ClipBlast!, posted in an article on the Alt Search Engines website, http://altsearchengines.com/2007/08/22/video-search-another-great-debate/ |