Posts Tagged ‘ video search ’

Hulu Puts Search Into Embedded Videos

Jun 5th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General, Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video

Hulu today added a smart feature to its embedded videos: video search:
We’ve just released a new feature that lets you search for videos from Hulu players that are embedded on blogs, social networking sites and similar pages on the Web. Your search results will appear directly in the Hulu video screen, and you don’t have [...]



TimeTube Puts YouTube Videos On A Timeline

May 10th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video

TimeTube is a mashup that puts YouTube videos on an interactive timeline.
Search for any phrase, and TimeTube presents the results on a timeline. You can scale the timeline to show more time or more detail.
Timetube also lets you view the results as a list, in Flip Book mode or on a map.



Google Video Sitemaps Introduced

Dec 18th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Movie Store, Digital Video Downloads, Internet TV, Making Money with Podcasts, Streaming Video, Video, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

Google today announced a new standard for helping search engines index video, Video Sitemaps.
Video Sitemaps is an extension of the Sitemap Protocol that helps make your videos more searchable via Google Video Search. By submitting this video-specific Sitemap in addition to your standard Sitemap, you can specify all the video files on your site, along [...]



TheFunRide Searches Across YouTube & 70 Other Video Sites…..Just Not Very Well

Oct 20th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Video Downloads, General, Streaming Video, Video

A new site, TheFunRide lets you search for videos across YouTube, Google Video, Metcafe, Daily Motion and 70+ other video sharing sites. Unfortunately, it doesn’t do it very well yet.
We searched for a variety of popular video search terms, with terrible results:

Pamela Anderson - this search returned lots of skateboarding videos, but no Pam Anderson.
Eva [...]



Truveo Expanding Video Search Reach

Oct 15th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Video Downloads, Streaming Video, Video

Video search engine Truveo announced today that it is working with European video company Kewego to extend the reach of Truveo’s video search engine to hundreds of European major-brand video producers.
“In the past 12 months there has been an explosion of professional video on the Web,” said Timothy Tuttle, CEO and Co-Founder of Truveo and [...]



New AOL Video Portal Features More than 20 Million Videos

Jul 4th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Video Downloads, Streaming Video, Video

AOL has launched an update to its AOL Video portal.
New features include:

A redesigned main page that makes it easier for consumers to discover, search for and find millions of videos from across the Web;
A redesigned video search experience that leverages Truveo video search technology and features better presentation of Web search results to help users [...]



PodZinger Changes Name To EveryZing

Jun 12th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, Podcasting Services, Video, Video Podcasts

Media search technology company PodZinger has announced they will re-brand as EveryZing to reflect in its name that its future business operations which will go beyond podcasting. The company also announced a major expansion plan into all forms of online multimedia content.
PodZinger’s speech-to-text technology extracts text from audio and video files, offering additional information for [...]



PodZinger Gets Larger Video Player

Feb 6th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Video Downloads, Video, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

PodZinger has announced the release of a new, larger video player. For easier viewing, the size of the player has increased to 480 x 425 pixels.
They’ve also introduced ZingLinks, which include:

The ability to embed audio and video on a user’s page via PodZinger-generated HTML code
The ability to send audio and video to friends via a [...]



PodZinger Now Indexing Text Of YouTube Videos

Jan 4th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Video Downloads, Podcasting Services, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

PodZinger has announced that it is now indexing the audio content of YouTube videos, letting you search YouTube videos for spoken words or phrases.
“YouTube has garnered a huge amount of press and interest over the past year. Its reputation as a grass roots online forum for sharing is cemented by it being the driving force [...]



First Phase of International Video Podcast Directory Launches

Dec 13th, 2006 | By Elisabeth Lewin | Category: Podcast Directory Sites, Video Podcasts

SearchforMedia Network, developer of video and audio search engine technologies, announced Tuesday the first phase of its international video podcast directory, www.searchforvideo.com. The video search engine offers users a means to find podcast content from a variety of countries and in a number of languages.
“Searchforvideo currently offers a video podcast directory for English-language video podcasts. [...]