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 Search Accounts for More Than One-Third of All Video Streams

Google searches referred 38.92% of all streams according to new collaborative TubeMogul & Brightcove research. The companies have teamed up to create a new online video index and quarterly research report, which will help identify key industry trends and answer questions about the state of ...

Google's New Bing Look for Search Result Pages Goes Live

Google has rolled out to the general public a new design/layout for their results page, and it's just as much like Bing as it was back when they were testing it back in January (there were rumors at the time that this was rolling out ...

Site Speed Now Affects Your Website’s Rank On Google

For years Google has been telling us how to present our content in a way that helps them understand what our websites are about. Now, they want us to do it faster. On Friday, Google announced something official that many in the SEO community were ...

YouTube Enables Auto-Captioning for All Videos - As Expected

YouTube, the leading destination for video sharing online, has announced today that they are rolling out their Auto-Captioning service on all videos. In a press conference at their San Bruno campus, their Director of Product Management, Hunter Walk, gave a walkthrough of the technology for ...

The Top 10 Sites To Search for Movie Trailers Online

Trailers (”previews”) are film advertisements for feature films that will be exhibited in the future. The term "trailer" comes from their having originally been shown at the end. That practice did not last long, because patrons tended to leave the theater after the films ended, ...

Clicker Wants To Be Your Web TV Search Engine - They're Mine

Clicker is an online video discovery service—essentially a TV Guide for finding video programming online. Today they announced that they'd closed another round of financing ($11 Million), which speaks pretty highly of what the VC community thinks of their chances.

New Google Search UI Feels More Like Bing Than Google

Everyone has a bad day. It's possible for even the most successful companies or individuals to miss the mark. Someday, Pixar will make a movie that is merely average instead of great. Some time in the future we might see Lebron James brick a ton ...

Optimizing Video Thumbnails for Google Universal Search

ReelSEO's Grant Crowell shows how to optimize image thumbnails for your video content, as they appear in Google's blended search results.

YouTube Wants You To Take Off Your Jacket and Stay Awhile

There's no time to rest when you're on top, even after years of total domination. YouTube, having been firmly entrenched as the number one online video portal for several years, might be tempted to stop and rest for a bit. After all, they are the ...

Google About To Roll Out Caffeine - How Will It Affect Video Results?

Google is getting ready to roll out their new Caffeine index to the entire world. You might remember this past summer, when we told you about Caffeine being tested. The word is that the new "way of indexing the web" will be unleashed sometime soon ...

Video Search Engine Optimization Tips From Truveo

Here's another one of our interviews from the Streaming Media West 2009 show. In this interview, I spoke with Dr. Pete Kocks, President of Truveo and VP at AOL Video. I asked Pete if he could provide some tips for our audience with regard to ...

YouTube Continues Search Engine Domination - Up 31% YOY

Is anyone still wondering if search is important for video? In November of last year, YouTube surpassed Yahoo for the first time in total U.S. search queries, making it the 2nd largest search engine in the U.S. next to only its owner, Google. Ever since ...

Google Gets Juiced Up On Caffeine But Not Til 2010

Caffeine, what was once just a sandbox at Google for those who have too much time on their hands, take SEO as the word of god or write about this sort of thing is ready to stream into the veins of the internet after the ...

Search Engines Are Just Waiting for Your Video Content

Today I wanted to share an interview with media agency executive Robert Davis, Interactive Marketing Director/Leader of Interactive Video for Ogilvy Interactive. Robert tells Andy Plesser of Beet.tv that they have seen a tremendous rise in traffic to video content coming from search engines, especially over the ...