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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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    1. 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. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 3, Funny

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

    Yes, you CAN search for the obvious

  4. Works pretty well! by miscellaneous_havoc · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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

    2. Re:Works pretty well! by corbettw · · Score: 3, Funny

      First thing I searched was "Paris Hilton"...

      I just tried this search, too. I was struck by a couple of things:

      1) Man, that chick is skinny! Someone get her a cheeseburger. And I'm not one of those guys who's into so-called "BBW" type women, either. I just don't get into women who have asses like 12 yo boys.
      2) She was, what, 18, when this clip was made? Just goes to show that sometimes enthusiasm is a poor substitute for experience.

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  5. Can't really see this working. by MetalliQaZ · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

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

  7. Video search BETA? by HarveyBirdman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Will I be able to search VHS videos soon?

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  8. what this really looks like. by joel2600 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

  9. Porn? by HarveyBirdman · · Score: 3, Funny

    What's porn? Did you mistype pr0n?

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  10. remember.. by minus_273 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    scour media search about 3 years back. It was wonderfun until it started killing servers.

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  11. Karma whore? by Jugalator · · Score: 4, Funny

    So this (disable safe search) is how a karma whore looks. Wow...

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    1. Re:Karma whore? by corbettw · · Score: 4, Funny

      The goggles! They do nothing!

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  12. 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. :)