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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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Turn safe search off by enosys · · Score: 4, Informative

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

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

    Will I be able to search VHS videos soon?

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  6. 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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  7. 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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