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Yahoo Video Search Beta
An anonymous reader sent in some pointers to Yahoo rolling out a video search tool. We've mentioned searching digital video previously, and AltaVista (remember them?) also has a video search available.
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Alltheweb has had a video search for years.
- Just my $0.02, take with a grain of salt, your mileage may vary.
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Yes, you CAN search for the obvious
Welcome to the party Yahoo.
AltaVista should be sued by Yahoo.
First thing I searched was "Paris Hilton"... I have to say it brought up quite a few clips of her being interviewed. But it was missing one special clip for me to really give it two thumbs up.
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So will this beat the badass video search over at http://www.suprnova.org/
Probably not
Even if the text that yahoo actually searches can accurately point to an appropriate video, how long with those videos stay on the host server before the they are removed to save on bandwidth wastage. Google's image search is already practially dead, this can't be any better. Good gimmick tho...
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I am not sure why the product is really beta when variations of this have been available on the web for many years. I also noticed that the layout is very similar to google image searching. Do all these search engines use google layout?
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Or are they evil and I just don't know it?
Is this powered by Google? The layout similarity is a little, google-ish, if it's not.
Turn safe search off in advanced search. Then you'll find those clips.
Will I be able to search VHS videos soon?
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So now whenever you need a good laugh just do a video search for funny .
When you want to feel better about yourself do a search for stupid.
And, when you want some nerd love do a search for, well I'll leave that one to you...
http://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?p=natal ie+portman&svideo=Search+Video&ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&fl= 0&x=wrt&vm=p
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Results 1 - 20 of about 49 for pr0n.
all i'm really seeing here is that it's looking for videos with your keywords in the name of the video or probably on the page related or linked to the video. then it shows you a preview, probably of the first frame of the video.
is this really that amazing? the people that built the image searches for these engines probably could have done this in a week.
A search for 'sex' only finds videos about 'Same Sex Marriages' and similar useless internet babble.
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What's porn? Did you mistype pr0n?
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scour media search about 3 years back. It was wonderfun until it started killing servers.
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I wonder when google beta will release an alpha of the yahoo search engine?
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It would be good to have a nice centralized search of chinese/russian/*whatever* trackers. :)
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1. pr0n 2. beheadings 3. porn ( for the occasional viewer who isnt in with the new terminology ) 4. Paris Hilton ....You see where this is heading. Yahoo is gonna go back to its early days when people were using it specifically for searching out pics of Pamela Anderson. Not that I am complaining, but what good do they actually think they are going to do people. All it will do is cause these geeks to stay in front of their computers for more extended periods of time, not that I am complaining, and also cause alot of bogus redirects. Or will turn into what Kazaa is, fake files. Other than that, I will be using it for new movie releases. YAY!!! Long Live the Cam man!
So this (disable safe search) is how a karma whore looks. Wow...
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didn't know this was videoed. there's tons of clips man, isn't that enough?
When will people be able to search for and legally download old tv shows and movies. Oh yeah it should be cheap.
Why doesn't Napster (the new napster) negotiate contracts with whoever they need to and do it? Why are they stuck in mp3 ?
AltaVista's engine is better for searching porn. Search for "as%", for example: Yahoo returns all sort of stuff, while AltaVista return some interesting pr0n... :P
In its present state this tool isn't much more useful than a regular Google search. However, if and when there is extensive meta data indexing the actual content of the video it becomes tremendously useful. Imagine the ability to search for something and be able to locate a specific 30 second portion of a 2 hour long video. Wouldn't that be handy?
Do you know how many times "The Daily Show" has clowned Donald Rumsfeld in 2004 according to Yahoo! Video Search?
Once.
Search on: "daily show" rumsfeld
This might be a good way for Yahoo to get some of the Google users to start using the search engine, and not only for videos. But as soon as google brings up theire Video search I doubt that the average joe will even bother trying Yahoo's video search. As mentioned above other search engines has had this service for a long time and people have never bothered.
Is Yahoo's video search based on AntaVista's technology? It seems to me that the results are identical.
how many people searched for boobs?
"All it will do is cause these geeks to stay in front of their computers for more extended periods of time"
:-)
Well, I must say, after a run through and taking advantage of the "service", I now feel like getting up and havinga cigaret. This will probably keep get more people off of their asses...seing that it only takes 20 seconds to search, 60 seconds to watch, and the *poof*, time to do something else!
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Seeing as how Yahoo owns Overture, which owns AltaVista, I think it's pretty easy to see where this new video search comes from. :)
I read the headline as Yahoo Beta Video Search...
I guess I'm showing my age, and that Beta is still NOT dead!
Don't knock the idea.
There are some very hot screenshots posted to the web with absolutely no information identifying what pr0n film they were excerpted from.
A service that could take one of these screenshots and then reply with a list of likely matches would be very useful (and probably make a fortune for yahoo if they offered a link to the item for sale).
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those folks should just go ahead and create auto-search buttons for the most obvious video search terms, pamela anderson, paris hilton, jenna jamison, etc...
that way users won't have to burn off extra energy trying to remember how to spell their names.
Is it 5:30 yet?
Consider these results:
Don't Copy that Floppy !?!? and...
pathetic
Check out this one. It's really impressive.
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It's not like this thing is scanning the videos with some type of image filtering algorithm or AI. It's just looking for your keyword in the title of the video, the link or the body of a page it finds *.mpg or *.avi's on and snapping a pic of the first frame.
Nothing new here... although I suppose it could be useful. However, my quick research on 'tits' yielded very unsatisfactory results. So, I guess YMMV.
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Turn it off...
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bah "hot teenage eskimo cheerleaders" gets nada useless bah cookies, bah, default should be no censor, double bah
Its simple and not meant to scour the web, but we've been doing some very useful video search for about 4 yrs now. But you a need a transcript that is synched. Check one of the clips found here - http://www.rften.org/meeting_presidents.php
These searching tools stand nothing close to good video searching. Video searching is when you make a query for football games like: green background, horizontal camera motion and multiple motions in the lower half.
Or when you say, I wish to find all the videos from the last 30 years with a specific theme or content.
There have begun to emerge sorts of MPEG-7-based video database/library applications and solutions, both indexing-wise and query-wise. And only this seems today the right way to gather large, indexable and searchable video databases.
Searching videos by names... lame and useless. Like: what, we can't have steak ? Ok, let's eat chicken then, that's meat of an animal too.
I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I can think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
Wow. I never thought I'd go to an URL with yahoo.com in it and look at a UI that looks exactly like a competitor.
I have been looking for a place to get BETA videos...Oh wait
The first I heard of this I was tailing my access log (people were swarming some videos on my site) and within minutes of somebody with a yahoo mail referrer following a link to my page, yahoo scraped all the video on my site... but with a special av crawler.
So yeah, if you don't want yahoo's spider eating up your bandwidth, you can block it (or maybe set up your server so that they get tiny files) and not block yahoo wholesale.
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I conducted a simple search for the word "stoats" - let's pretend I'm putting together a wildlife documentary on the weasel's lesser known cousin.
Yahoo video search comes up with two results - http://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?p=stoat s&fr=sfp&ei=UTF-8&save=0
Yet, if I search for stoats on BBC Motion Gallery I get 4 results, including this little gem - http://www.bbcmotiongallery.com/customer/common/se arch/searchDetails.jsp?clipItemId=prod20370
Various other searches didn't seem to turn up much anything from other well known film archives such as Getty Images, Corbis Motion, National Geographic etc
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Funny how they're not mentioned, again (same as when Google Images was announced)
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Well, the story *I* heard was that someone, somewhere (it's usually described as a pre-WWW Usenet post- probably written on a papyrus scroll) typed it that way accidently, a few people on the same thread copied it, and it sort of took off from there. That's my preferred theory, anyway, as I like memetics.
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With algorithms from three very good search engines under its belt in addition to its own directory data, Yahoo later announced it is foregoing its relationship with Google. Coincidence? Of course not.
For what it is worth, my search results from Yahoo is just as good as the ones from Google, sometimes better, sometimes worse. It seems like the only place where you can got poor search results nowadays is from MSN search!
yeah it's a video. foundry music has it ... search thier site.
So when will a tool for searching in a video come out?
Google cannot afford Yahoo! and even if they could, they wouldn't sell. Yahoo has boatloads more traffic than Google will ever have.
Frankly, I don't even use Google anymore, preferring Yahoo search, Kartoo and Teoma. Hell, even Ask Jeeves has improved since they started using Teoma (they own it).
Since "Natalie Portman hot grits" returns 0 results!
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No, not like Google images.
Say I have a picture with a meaningless filename and no identifying marks on it. And I really want to find the more info on the artist/photographer/subject. I want to post the image to some picture search service and it'll spit out results of similar pictures. By "similar", I mean like GQView's similarity feature, which is pretty keen, and frankly magical to me.
Does anyone know of a service like this?
"Video Search"? The tool does no such thing. A true "video search" tool would take a query like "blue farmhouses" or "red barns" and return a list of all the videos that have blue farmhouses or red barns IN the video, and the actual location (hours, minutes, seconds, frame) in the video where those things can be found. A true "video search" tool would also be able to index and search dialogue in the video itself.
All this thing is doing is indexing meta data about the videos that was contributed by a human. Just about worthless, if you ask me, and certainly nothing to get excited about.
It found a couple copies of the Star Wars Holiday Special.
Don't blame me, I voted for Baltar.
I'm not impressed.
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the reason there's no pr0n results is probably due to yahoo filtering the search results and making sure any page with text containing all the normal pr0n terms are not dug through. quite a disappointment? well, i'm sure if someone were to start a company that dug through all pr0n sites for direct video links, that cmpany wuld make tons of money. anyone interested? reply here! :D
Or worse, how long before I rename my videos to Paris_hilton_sex_romp.mov? Sure seems ripe for spammers and their ilk to take advantage (once again)....
They still owe me a commission check for click-thrus from three years ago...
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