Talk:Video search engine

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Finding video on the web used to be easy. You just went to YouTube and hoped you could find what you wanted. Now there are hundreds of more choices with new niche content sites coming out just about every day. How does one find what they want to watch? A search on YouTube has become overwhelming and you simply cannot sift through hundreds of pages.

A new breed of video search engines (video.2try4, SearchForVideo, Pixsy, FLURL, etc.), has come out allowing people to search many sites. This helps expand a search, but it still leaves out a lot of material on smaller sites that don't have XML interfaces to the larger search engines. You are also faced with the problem of getting swamped with poor quality non-relevent videos. Another group of sites, like Videosift filter videos by a community of users. Other sites, like OVGuide, provide a user interface into many video content providers and search engines, which helps one find more content, especially from smaller sources. It also allows you to choose which channel to search to help narrow down your results.

Perhaps this is where the future lies in video search, since different sources will be best to give you proper results. For example, you might want to search a cooking site for professional cooking demos. The same results might be available on YouTube, but since the videos on the cooking site are pre-screened by human editors, you have a much better chance of actually finding what you need.

68.171.47.57 18:15, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

The multi web search engine 2try4 provides multi video search for most engines online. Enabling users to discover & multi play clips on video search engines, such as Youtube, yahoo, Google, grouper, flurl, searchforvideo, blinkx, aol, etc.

82.34.90.77 18:00, 05 February 2007 (UTC)