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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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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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You obviously didn't get the searchhquery right
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It's acutally a couple of clips there.. enjoy
That is exactly what I mean by 'dead'. It hasn't been updated in months. My take on that situation is that Google has just given up on the concept. It is often an interesting game to search for random words like "kitchen" and see how much porn comes up. I always find better pictures by searching 'ordinary' google. Image search doesnt really search images anyway...it searches the text on the page that links to the images. -d
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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?
Is Yahoo's video search based on AntaVista's technology? It seems to me that the results are identical.
We are fast approaching a day when all manner of film and television content comes to us over the internet. Much of it already does. Yahoo and Google know this, and they aren't planning to let that market go uncontested.
Now, Jon Stewart on Crossfire, anyone?
This video search is just based on filename? That's far behind the state-of-art of research. It might be true that content-based video search is still not mature, but at least yahoo can do better than this filename-based search. For example, they can develop some web crawler to extract closed caption and movie title, or make use of the information on the web pages.
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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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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