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Yahoo Video Search Beta

Posted by michael on from the to-boldly-search-where-no-man-has-searched-before dept.

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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  1. Alltheweb by robyannetta · · Score: 5, Informative

    Alltheweb has had a video search for years.

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    - Just my $0.02, take with a grain of salt, your mileage may vary.
    1. Re:Alltheweb by vidarh · · Score: 2, Informative

      Alltheweb is owned by Overture, which is a subsidiary of Yahoo...

    2. Re:Alltheweb by MarkH · · Score: 3, Informative

      In fact if you compare

      http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=vid&cs=utf8& q= kate+winslet&rys=0

      http://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?ei=UT F- 8&fr=sfp&p=kate+winslet

      You will see remarkable similiarities

  2. Save some time.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, you CAN search for the obvious

  3. I've been using AltaVista VidSearch for years by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Welcome to the party Yahoo.

    AltaVista should be sued by Yahoo.

  4. Turn safe search off by enosys · · Score: 4, Informative

    Turn safe search off in advanced search. Then you'll find those clips.

  5. Useless by tehJR · · Score: 1, Informative

    A search for 'sex' only finds videos about 'Same Sex Marriages' and similar useless internet babble.
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    i was the walrus

  6. Re:Works pretty well! by Vampyre_Dark · · Score: 3, Informative

    Try AskJolene.com ... you'll find nothing but the right kind of videos. >:)

  7. Well... by GarfBond · · Score: 3, Informative

    Seeing as how Yahoo owns Overture, which owns AltaVista, I think it's pretty easy to see where this new video search comes from. :)

  8. A better video search by Hiawatha · · Score: 2, Informative

    Check out this one. It's really impressive.

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    Hiawatha Bray

    Tech Reporter

    Boston Globe

  9. Re:Porn? by harmonica · · Score: 2, Informative
    There is a Wikipedia article which also covers pr0n:

    On the Internet pornography is often referred to as pr0n which is misspelled p0rn -- porn written with zero, a common style in a so called leet speak. One theory on the origins of this spelling is that it was devised to fool spam filters which blocked emails with the word "porn" from coming through to the recipient. However, since leet speak has performed similar mutations on a number of words, including those unlikely to feature in unsolicited commercial e-mails (0wned, r00t, n00b, d00d), it is likely that any transformation of "porn" to "pr0n" for spamming purposes is at best an independent invention.
  10. Re:Not immediately useful. by idfubar · · Score: 0, Informative

    Actually the functionality that you're looking for is available, albeit in protoypes in academia. Marc Davis at UC Berkeley (formerly of MIT Media Lab) has been working on automatically capturing video metadata and storing using the facilities of MPEG4 in conjunction with sophisticated searching. Have a look here.

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    Rishi Chopra
    www.rishichopra.org
  11. Re:When will google do it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    It's only on Slashdot people are deluded enough to think that Google somehow has the search market locked up.

    Ahem (source: Nielsen//NetRatings):

    According to Nielsen//NetRatings, Google has a 44 percent share of the search market, followed by Yahoo! with 18 percent, MSN with 11, America Online, which uses Google AdSense, with 7 percent, and AskJeeves with 4 percent.

  12. Yahoo owns Inktomi, Altavista, and Alltheweb! by mrklin · · Score: 2, Informative
    Actually, to be exact, Yahoo bought Inktomi. Overture bought Altavista and Alltheweb. Yahoo then bought Overture.

    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!