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 ([[http: //video.2try4.com/] 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)
[edit] Vdoogle
Vdoogle is a video search engine and does a fine job of finding the video the user is looking for. this is not advertising, but helping people get what they are looking for. they cant find a video so they come here, looking for a video search engine, and vdoogle does a good job finding that video so to not ad it to the list would be depriving people. Vdoogle is not an advertisement on wikipedia simply because vdoogle does not say, "Click here!!! Better than all others!!!!" we simply add the link, give a description. it is their choice to go or to not.— 67.182.0.3 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. The preceding unsigned comment was added at 23:28, 30 June 2007 (UTC).
External links policy on Advertising and conflicts of interest states You should avoid linking to a website that you own, maintain or represent, as is the case in this situation. Unfortunately your conflict of interest editing involves contributing to Wikipedia in order to promote Vdoogle. Such a conflict is strongly discouraged. Your contributions to wikipedia under Nickboyett and IP's 67.182.4.58, 67.182.36.71, 67.182.36.111, 12.44.170.10, 67.181.201.132, 67.182.36.151, consist entirely of adding external links to Vdoogle on this and other articles and is considered WP:Spam. Looking through your multitude of IP's contributions as a whole, the all seem to be Vdoogle related only. Please do not continue adding links to your own websites to Wikipedia. It has become apparent that your account and IP's are only being used for spamming Wikipedia and for self-promotion.--Hu12 06:34, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
