universal search Articles

Is Google Universal Search Biased Towards YouTube?

The short answer is....   It certainly seems so!  There was a great post today from Sherwood Stranieri of SearchEngineLand titled, "Is Google Universal Search A Walled Garden?." The nice thing about this article is that the author takes a fairly objective approach, giving Google the ...

blinkx Launches Universal Online TV Remote - Beta

blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced the launch of its latest blinkx Remote service, the ultimate tool for finding and watching TV episodes on the Web. blinkx Remote provides users with a way to find their favourite TV shows ...

Google Applies "clustering" and Titles To Video Results

Google is now featuring video listings from its universal search results pages in a 2-column, 2x2 format, similar to its format for featuring 2-columns of links of popular websites....

General Advice and Concepts for Video Search Optimization

Glenn Pingul, a friend of ours, and the VP of Marketing at Mixpo, wrote a great post this week on iMediaConnection.com that offers some great general advice and tips to help with video search engine optimization (SEO).  Glenn offers some general advice that help with ...

Universal Search Strategy for Video Is Not Universal

The major search engines (in particular MSN, Yahoo, and Google) have taken different approaches with regard to the way in which they serve video search results in a universal search environment.  It is interesting to examine how universal search has changed and developed at each ...

Video Search Engine Optimization - SEM Déjà Vu

The following post was written by our guest, Jamie Sterling. Jamie is a contributer to SearchEngineOptimization.com and recently started a video series dedicated to online video and search. Jamie is also a marketing coordinator at Impaqt, a well-known search engine marketing firm. Video search optimization ...

AgendiZe Launches First Video-to-Action API

AgendiZe, the premier provider of call-to-action services, today introduced their Video-to-Action API, which makes it easy for video publishers and ad agencies to add a comprehensive suite of customer engagement tools within online videos to make them actionable.

Streaming Media East Conference Videos Available

Dan Rayburn announced that a number of the videos from the recent Streaming Media East conferences have been edited and archived and are now available on the Streaming Media website. You can find the videos here. Here is the opening session where Dan Rayburn interviewed ...

Universal Search Results - Are Videos Dominant?

Why is Video SEO important? Here is one example; In an article released this past week at Comscore, click-through rates for universal search results pages are analyzed and broken down by results type, video vs. news results, vs images, vs. local, etc.... The "Click Performance ...

Research - 1 Billion Online Video Users By 2013

Sparked by increasing broadband penetration and rising connection speeds available to a growing percentage of the world's population, over-the-top video has seen phenomenal growth in very recent years. A new study from ABI Research forecasts the number of viewers who access video via the Web ...

Adap.tv Helps Publishers Adapt To Video Advertising

This past week at the Streaming Media East conference in New York City, I had the privilege of speaking with the CEO of Adap.tv, Amir Ashkinazi. Prior to forming adap.tv, Amir was a founder and the CTO of Shopping.com. Amir told me all about their ...

EveryZing- Finalist for 2008 MITX Technology Awards

EveryZing, a leader in next-generation Universal Search and video search engine optimization (video SEO), today announced that it has been named a finalist for the 5th Annual MITX Technology Awards. The Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange (MITX) What's Next Forum & Technology Awards recognize innovative ...

Yahoo Glue Pages - Universal Search for Yahoo

Yahoo India has been testing what it calls, "Glue Pages." These have been compared to Google's Universal Search, because the results bring in a mash-up of results from images, videos, maps, news, sponsored links, and other sources as appropriate. SERP sources can include images, videos ...

Successful Google SERP Video Thumbnail Experiment

So, I have been trying a little experiment. I was wondering if I could figure out how to get a video thumbnail in the Google universal SERPS. What I could could then use a video of my logo to show a logo next to my ...

New Open Source Video Advertising Platform

Adap.tv, a provider of contextual advertising for online video, has launched Adap.tv OneSource, the first open and universal video ad platform. Adap.tv OneSource empowers publishers to add, configure, and optimize video advertising across virtually all ad sources and all formats using sophisticated technology and a ...