Video search engine coverage. News about the video search engine sites that help users find online videos. Industry coverage of video search technology, indexing web videos for search engines, video search platforms, and more about video search
Microsoft has launched their new Google competitor, bing, complete with video search and everything.
blinkx shoots and scores! MSN and FOXSports.com choose blinkx over the kid no one ever wants on their team and hands them the ball giving them a chance to shine on the online sports video court.
Twitmatic, created by San Francisco startup ffwd, relaunched their Twitter video search application yesterday to help users more easily find video content shared via Twitter. Now before you go getting your hopes up you need to understand, this is a twitter video search app – IE, it only pulls in videos that are being shared through Tweets. None-the-less, this is a very cool application.
VideoSurf recently announced some new APIs are ready for everyone to tinker with. Videosurf is a video search engine that covers some of the largest video site like Hulu, ESPN, YouTube and more.
blinkx announced today that they are working on a technology integration with Miniweb. This will help everyone get their interactive videos and web-styled adverts on television. Miniweb will use Blinkx video search and other features as part of its online platform.
We at ReelSEO are always keen on finding new ways to search videos and more importantly, the content of the videos.
On April 14th Google announced, via their blog, that they would no longer support video uploads to Google Video but that it would continue to be a place for people to find videos (Google Blog), Changes have since been implemented at the video search page and have met with mixed reviews from the userbase.
The Google Blog stated:
Anyone can easily search for videos from all over the web using Google Video. Finding things is the heart of what Web Search is all about so we’re gladly taking Google Video under our wings [Google Web Search Help Forum].
What do You get when You cross U(MG) with YouTube? Well aside from a lot of U’s in the sentence you get a premium music and video service.
Universal Music Group (UMG) and YouTube are going to create and launch a new service called VEVO which is set to be a music and video entertainment service that will feature UMG’s premium video content.
Truveo recently did some research which showed they outshine all others in European video search coverage. You might want to take with a grain of salt considering they were doing the research on their own industry and their own service and it might be slightly skewed. Not that we’re saying it is skewed, but it’s not an independent study so…
The following is Part 2 of our interview with James McQuivey(Ph.D.), Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. In Part 1 of our interview, we covered some background on James as well as some of his thoughts regarding the future of video consumption.
In Part 2 (below), James discusses the future of online video monetization, video discovery and video search, and a concept that he has coined, “OmniVideo.”
ReelSEO’s Grant Crowell interviews Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of the video publishing platform and indexing solutions provider Digitalsmiths, Ben Weinberger, on how their combination of image interpretation and speech recognition tools can enhance search results and SEO campaigns for businesses of all sizes.
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Tvissimo’s tagline is ‘demote the remote.’ Though I’m not exactly sure how much this service would really replace the remote for most people. Sure it’s a handy service in regards to television schedules for your local area, when it works properly.
