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Inside Online Video

Archive for the ‘Search’ Category

April 11th, 2008

Sex Tops YouTube Zeitgeist

The video above is YouTube’s current top search result for the query sex. Unfortunately, it’s just two hot chicks making out — with clothes on, to boot.
I feel cheated. I’m sticking with RedTube for real streaming porn.
Since YouTube is the world’s number one online video destination, its search terms make a pretty good reflection […]

By Mike Abundo -- 8 comments

December 22nd, 2007

Google Video Sitemap Generator

Mere days after Google introduces video sitemaps, independent developers Robert Redwood and Marc Liron release a free offline generator called Video Sitemap Pro. Very cool. Now all I need is a WordPress plugin, preferably integrated with FLV Embed, and Google can quickly thumbnail all the videos hosted on my personal blogs.
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By Mike Abundo -- 0 comments

December 21st, 2007

Google Introduces Video Sitemaps

You know those cool thumbnails YouTube videos get in Google search results? Earlier this year, Google expanded that feature to results from other major video sites. Now even videos hosted on personal sites can get that extra visibility in the SERPs.
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By Mike Abundo -- 7 comments

August 30th, 2007

TorrentSpy Ditches US Over Stupid Court Ruling

It’s amazing how you can make total fools of the Motion Picture Association of America simply by reminding them that the global market is bigger than America. After a US court orders torrent search engine TorrentSpy to violate their users’ privacy and hand over user data for a silly MPAA fishing expedition, TorrentSpy simply cuts […]

By Mike Abundo -- 1 comment

August 6th, 2007

Google to Index All Videos

Videos from more and more video sharing sites, complete with thumbnails, are showing up in Google SERPs. In an interview by Andy Plesser, Google spokesman Gabriel Sticker explains that Google is working to index all the world’s videos. That’s what Yahoo video search tries (and fails) to do.
Kudos to Google for giving video sites aside […]

By Mike Abundo -- 4 comments

June 30th, 2007

Peekvid Evades MPAA

The MPAA is suing video search engine Peekvid for the mere act of linking to possibly infringing material hosted on other sites. In a testament to the futility of frivolous copyright trolling in a global information economy, Peekvid has neatly sidestepped the MPAA’s nonsense. Traceroute shows they just moved their hosting from Texas to Panama. […]

By Mike Abundo -- 6 comments

June 28th, 2007

Google 411 Harvests Speech Data for Video Search

You’ve got to love Google’s ability to create clever synergies in its myriad of seemingly unrelated products. This time, Google VP Marissa Mayer reveals why the ad-free Google 411 doesn’t need a revenue stream: it’s a front to harvest speech recognition data for video search. By extension, speech recognition can be used for video ad […]

By Mike Abundo -- 1 comment

April 10th, 2007

How about a visual experience to find videos online?

blinkx, a video search engine on the web, announced that Quintura, a visual discovery engine dedicated to making web-based entertainment easier and more intuitive to find, will use blinkx to power video search.
Quintura employs a unique graphical user interface with an interactive tag cloud to visually navigate and easily refine searches. Quintura’s neural networking technology […]

By Minic Rivera -- 0 comments

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