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

How to Search, Buy, and Sell Stock Video Footage Online

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Are you trying to find that right piece of video content you can use commercially? Or perhaps you own video content you have the rights to sell, but don't want to do the selling work yourself? I interviewed Jim Goertz, Director of Content Development for ...

Facebook and YouTube Rise To The Top Most Search Keywords for 2010

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Experian Hitwise has released a year-end report detailing the most-searched keyword phrases and most-visited websites of 2010.  Among the most interesting reveals is the declaration that Facebook overtook Google as the most-visited website.  Of course, they wouldn't be number one if Google wasn't feeding them ...

Google Releases Annual Zeitgeist Report, An In-Depth Look At The 2010 Year In Search

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Last week we took a look at what some search engines were saying about the most popular queries of 2010.  All the major search engines typically release a recap of the year's most popular keywords and search phrases, and Yahoo, Bing, & AOL did so ...

The Future of Search Might Not Require Any Actual Searching

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Marrisa Mayer has a new title at Google:  head of consumer products.  Which is a little vague, if you ask me, but most major company job titles are that way.  At the LeWeb 2010 conference in Paris, she sat down on stage for an interview ...

Following Google’s Lead for A Super Obvious and Powerful Video Marketing Tip

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While researching possible article topics today, I ended up going down a rabbit hole of my own making over at the main Google blog.  See, I started by reading a post about the new Nexus S smart phone, which will run the much-hyped Gingerbread version ...

What Video Marketers Can Learn From Annual Lists of Top-Searched Keyword Terms

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For many years in a row, the top search query was Britney Spears.  When sharing this fact with clients and during seminars, I often joke that one would think we've learned everything there is to know about Miss Spears by now.  And it seems as ...

ComScore October 2010 Search Engine Rankings - Google Maintains Lead, Duh

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Since we talk about SEO, I figured we should talk about the search engines so you know where to focus (Google) and where you can sort of skip (AOL). Now, I find it odd that this report from comScore is five times longer than the ...

Yahoo's New Keyword Research & Comparison Tool, Clues, Is Google Trends With A Kick

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If you care at all about having your content ranked well on search engines, then you're probably familiar with the concept of keyword research.  At least, I hope you are.  No matter what our egos tell us, it's nearly impossible to accurately optimize a webpage ...

YouTube’s Topics On Search: Find The Videos You Want More Quickly

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Way back in the beginning, when YouTube was just an infant, their search function was awful.  It was flat-out terrible.  And while it's improved a lot since Google came into the picture, it's still not always as helpful and accurate as we probably wish it ...

Google Boost Local Search Ads Could Help Boost Video Traffic

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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

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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 ...

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

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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 ...

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

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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 ...

Yahoo Releases Major Changes To Search Interface

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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, ...

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

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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 ...

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