VIdeo search company SnapStream this week unveiled its new search tool, TV Trends. The new TV Trends utility tallies and graphs mentions of any term uttered on national U.S. television. TV Trends users can enter up to five keywords, and gets back a graph showing you the relative frequency of mentions of those words on [...]

Remember PodZinger? They were an early entrant into the “make money with podcasting” scene, with a “speech-to-text” technology (developed by BBN Technologies in about 2006). The idea was to convert, without an expensive (human) transcription service, a podcast audio file into a text file — which, in turn, would help search engines to find the [...]

Yahoo! has introduced an new search site, Yahoo! Glue, that promises to “glue together the best content on the web”: We’re starting with a limited set of topics (more will be added over time), pulling together content from the best places on the Web onto one Yahoo! Glueâ„¢ page. These pages are built using an algorithm [...]

YouTube has announced updates to its embeddable video player, adding high-quality start images, search, video annotations and Closed Captions.

blinkx announced today that it is the fastest growing video site in the U.S., and also one of the fastest growing online sites in the U.K. According to findings by Compete.com, blinkx is the fastest growing video site among the top 20 video competitors in the U.S. Its traffic grew by 1,036% between July 2007 and [...]

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 [...]

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 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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]