AT&T debuts video search site

AT&T isn't the brand that comes to mind when you think of online video search, but let's get past that point: the telecommunications company has announced a beta version of a site called VideoCrawler, which can search more than 1,600 online video outlets. AT&T hasn't released a full list of compatible video sites, but Google's YouTube is one of them.

VideoCrawler was developed in conjunction with start-up Divvio, a search company that constructed the VideoCrawler platform.

VideoCrawler doesn't host any videos, but members can still compile playlists and share them through embeddable widgets.

Other players in this space include Blinkx and the AOL-owned Truveo.

[Zakynthos]

great, what we need, another video site

[Heebee Jeebies]

Well, isn't this nice. A feature that has their customers reach the new quota they are looking at placing on DSL user's. How nice. HEY AT&T if you want quotas on the amount of bandwidth we can use then you might not want to offer features for bandwidth sucking stuff like video. Dumb@sses!

Robert

[cholis]

do we need another youtube search engine?

[gconnery]

After a quick check I have to say it doesn't look very impressive. VideoSurf, Blinkx and Truveo all look like better search engines.

Have to say, google continues to drop the ball here. Why isn't google video search a video search engine?