Yahoo Tests Video Search Engine
Yahoo has unveiled a video search engine to the serve the growing appetite for multimedia entertainment online.
Source: ZDNetAs previously reported, the Web portal has been developing a service that will let people search for video clips from across the Internet in much the way they do for Web pages and images. Late Wednesday, the company introduced the beta site, which searches for files in Microsoft's Windows Media, Apple Computer's QuickTime and RealNetwork's Real Media.
The test comes as the major search providers quietly prepare similar services. CNET News.com reported earlier this month that Google is secretly recording and indexing TV programming to make shows searchable online, much the way it brings library books to the Web. Microsoft, too, is developing a platform and search engine for searchable video that would allow people using the Internet or a television to find broadband or on-demand media.
America Online recently updated its multimedia engine Singingfish and has incorporated video search into its main site.
"They've all been circling around it," said Mika Salmi, founder of AtomFilms, a film site that is working with Yahoo to make its videos searchable.
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