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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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Michalangelo Progr
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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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.
Cough... copyright violations.. cough
scour media search about 3 years back. It was wonderfun until it started killing servers.
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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!
Why do people spell it pr0n? Seriously, I don't get that.
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"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.