Video search engine

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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. Some engines also allow users to search by video format type and by length of the clip. Search results are usually accompanied by a thumbnail view of the video.

–== Popular video search engines ==

• AOL Video AOL Video offers a leading video search engine that can be used to find video located on popular video destinations across the web.

• Truveo Video Search Truveo is a Silicon Valley startup that pioneered a variety of technologies widely used by video search engines today. In December of 2005, Truveo was acquired by AOL. Truveo's technology currently powers AOL's video search engine as well as the video search services found on many other popular video websites.
• VDoogle! searches many popular video sharing websites such as Youtube, Dailymotion, and several more. It is built off Google's Custom Search Engine

• Searchforvideo offers video search and lists video links - organized by topic - from thousands of online video sources, updated regularly throughout the day.

• ClipBlast Video Search ClipBlast! Video Search is the world's largest online video search index. Since 2001, ClipBlast technology has been crawling and indexing the web of all its video in order to provide people and content providers fast, easy and relevant video experiences.

• Google Video is a popular video search engine and permits visitors to upload content to be hosted and searched. It also parses the closed-captioning of televised content. Found in the list of possible search options after clicking "more" on the main page.

• Yahoo! Video Search Yahoo!'s search engine examines video files on the internet using its Media RSS standard. Is found on a direct link called "Video" off the main page above the text block.

• AltaVista Video Search had one of the first video search engines with easy accessible use. Is found on a direct link called "Video" off the main page above the text block.

• blinkx.tv' was launched in 2004 and uses speech recognition and visual analysis to process spidered video rather than rely on metadata alone. blinkx.tv claims to have the largest archive of video on the web and puts its collection at around 6,000,000 hours of content.

• Jyxo page (also known as CESNET Videoarchive) was launched in 2003 and indexes metadata included in media files. Now indexed some european domains and .edu. Older technical description of the system is written in CESNET technical report: [1].

• You Tube Video was created in February 2005, as a 'consumer media company' for people to search for, watch and share original videos worldwide through the Internet.

• TubeSurf Video Search lets users perform keyword searches on YouTube, MySpace Videos, Google Video, and Yahoo! Video from a single location. Search results are provided by Google.

• Online Video Guide lets users search and browse over 50 different video search engines, selecting the ones most likely to have what is requested in a search. Also provides links to video sites in many different categories.

• Vibiv can search for videos by both keyword tags and spoken dialog, and also lets users create and share video mashups with others that already have the source content in their library.