Comments on: Google readying Web-only video search

Company is expected to unveil search engine for Web-only video that will let people preview media clips from its Web site.

[ThatAdamGuy]

Video before audio?

Anyone else find it odd that Google's leaped to video before releasing any audio tidbits? There's such a ripe opportunity here for a player like Google in the audio space, and one can only hope they've indeed got something like this up their sleeves ;).

Regards,

Adam

http://www.bladam.com/

[ThatAdamGuy]

grr... okay, this time without the HTML

Anyone else find it odd that Google's leaped to video before releasing any audio tidbits? There's such a ripe opportunity here for a player like Google in the audio space, and one can only hope they've indeed got something like this:

http://www.bladam.com/archives/0504052252.htm

up their sleeves ;).


Regards,
Adam
http://www.bladam.com/

[biofloat]

AOL's Singingfish is above par

CNET writes: "The first stage of the video search engine will put Google on par with chief rival Yahoo, which finished work on its own Web video search engine in May, as well as others such as America Online's Singingfish and Blinkx."

The video search engine offered by Yahoo, and likely that provided by Google, are primarily "marketing engines". The have little or nothing to do with searching the Web for video. Only Singingfish provides a comprehensive index of Web-based audio and video. Try it for yourself.

For example, try a not-so-obscure search for a well-known Cape Breton fiddler, Natalie MacMaster:

* Blinkx: 0 hits, doesn't link you to video anyway
* Yahoo: 5 hits (only 2 work), two step process to get video going.
* Singingfish: All 10 hits work (video), 234 hits (audio), and results include Yahoo's hosted content from music.yahoo.com. Direct link to stream, i.e., one-click viewing.

Blinkx, Yahoo and Google are simple cobbling together a set of links to clips fed to them by content providers. Singingfish has this too, but also includes what you expect from a search engine -- the video and audio that's out there posted on the Web.

Come on CNET, Yahoo, Blinkx, and (likely) Google's offerings are nowhere close to Singingfish...

/eric
(who doesn't work for singingfish...)

[William Squire]

What formats are supported?

Anybody wonder how much effort Google will make to ensure that their system works with the Dirac format?
http://www.inaniloquent.com/PermaLink.aspx?guid=ba60f044-29e3-4217-a2e7-4b241199b0df

[tomermolo]

PredictAd Video Search

in closed beta:

http://searchassist.blogspot.com/2008/01/predictad-video-search-holy-moses.html