Video Search

Video search engine coverage. News about the video search engine sites and general search engines as the pertain to assisting users find online videos. Industry coverage of video search technology, indexing web videos for search engines, video search platforms, universal search, and more about search engines

Google Boost Local Search Ads Could Help Boost Video Traffic

Last week, Google quietly rolled out a new kind of search ad—called Google Boost.  Boost is intended to be used for locally-focused businesses that want an easy, pain-free way to get some added exposure when local searches are performed.

How To Get Your Videos On Google TV - One More Benefit of Video Sitemaps

I've certainly been a proponent of Google's Video Sitemaps for getting into Google Videos and Google Universal Search results...  I've also eluded to the notion that one reason behind Google's push to educate publishers about video sitemaps had to do with their desire to increase the content available for Google TV.   I recently got ...

Blekko: Another Human-Edited Search Engine Hopes To Take On Google By Stopping Spam

ReelSEO is, first and foremost, about video.  Video marketing, video production, and of course, video SEO.  So search engine news is something we tend to pay attention to.  There’s a new search engine in town, and it claims to have the one thing that Google’s search engine does not:  human editors.

Google Experiments With Friends - Integrates Twitter-Shared Links In News

It must be some kind of unofficial “tinker with your search engine” day or something.  Hot on the heels of Yahoo’s major search interface overhaul, Search Engine Land has discovered that Google is testing a new feature with Google News—the ability to connect it to your Twitter account. 

Yahoo Releases Major Changes To Search Interface

Not to be outdone by all the new things Google has been doing with their search interface this year, Yahoo has just released a pretty major update to their own search engine.  And since we're all about getting your videos found on search engines here, I figure we'd better take a look and see what's ...

Google Releases Goo.gl, Their URL Shortening Service, To The Public

URL shorteners are all the rage.  With the rise of social media like Facebook and Twitter, there is a greater need than ever before for users to find a way to make their links shorter so as to leave more room for actual text in their updates.  And now even Google has their own shortener, ...

Google Instant Expands To Google Videos and Other Search Verticals

Google just released Google Instant a couple weeks ago, and already they're rolling out new features.  Things move pretty quickly at the house of Google, I guess.  While most of us are still trying to figure out how Google Instant impacts SEO, they've moved forward with a rollout of the Instant feature to other search ...

Google's Birthday: Looking Back Over 12 Years of Growth and Change At Google Inc.

Google is celebrating their 12th birthday during the month of September, and today they have placed a little birthday cake logo on their home page—it was on this date, September 27, in 1998 that Google was first incorporated as a privately held company.

New "Google New" Helps You Keep Up With Everything New At Google

If you care about how well your content--video included--ranks in Google's search results, you probably try to pay attention to the many Google announcements related to their products and services.  But with so many products and services--and tons of specialized Google product blogs--it can be a bit overwhelming.  It's easy to miss a big change ...

An In-Depth Look At The Impact of Google Instant On SEO and PPC - Is SEO Dead?

Last week, Google introduced a new capability to its search engine results page, a functionality called “Google Instant.”  When the announcement hit, people were clamoring to chime in with respect to the effect that Google Instant might have on search engine optimization (SEO) and pay per click (PPC) advertising.  The age-old question of “is SEO dead?” started ...

Google Gets Instant: Real-Time Live Search Results As You Type

Google has been a bit playful this week leading up to today’s media event.  Yesterday, the logo was comprised of little blue dots, and users could mouse over it to “scatter” the dots all over the page before they regrouped again.  It was pretty neat, and also vague in its meaning. Today, the logo changed ...

Vimeo SEO: How To Get Embedded Vimeo Videos Into Google

As I mentioned previously, Google is pushing hard to let people know that video sitemaps are the way to go when looking to get video into Google's search results.  And I am happy to report to you that video sitemaps DO work for Vimeo videos.

Yahoo Steals A Chunk of Google's Search Engine Market Share?

I come from a background in search.  I’m a search engine guy first, and a video guy second.  It’s just how I’m wired.  Which is why ReelSEO is such a great home for me, because I get to write about both.  Today, there’s some news about search engines that isn’t specific to video, but its ...

Why You Should Care About Google’s Rumored Social Networking Service

Rumors have been swirling for ages that Google is secretly building their own social networking service.  Even before that Tweet from Digg’s Kevin Rose got tongues wagging, many industry insiders had long suspected Google was looking to get more social.

Google and ReelSEO Want You To Embrace Video SEO

Last month, I told you that Google is putting additional efforts into instructing publishers of the benefits of  Google's video sitemaps.  It is nice to see that Google is also running some PPC ads to promote Video SEO.  Since the start of ReelSEO, I've been a proponent of video sitemaps and I have always felt ...