Yahoo Now Offers Video Searching

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Searching for goodies online just keeps getting easier and easier, and a heck of a lot more fun!

Today, Yahoo announced the beta version (geek-speak for still-refining-version) of Yahoo video search.

A few years ago, this feature wasn't really necessary since video content was really scarce, but with the video explosion online, it's an idea whose time has definitely come.

A quick search for Hawaii yielded nearly 4000 videos! That's awesome!

The advanced video search options let you refine things such as:

  • Media type you're looking for (AVI, MPEG, Windows Media, Quicktime, Real)
  • Media size
  • Media duration
  • Domain to search
  • Adult filtering

I really like the info provided for each result. It includes the name of the file, its physical size, its length, its filesize, and the URL where it exists:

Yahoo video search result

I can think of an immediate way of improving it - RSS (of course)!

It would be great to enter some keywords for a video search, and on the result page find an RSS feed I could subscribe to, which would automatically notify me anytime a new video was indexed that matched my keywords. Essentially the same thing that Yahoo does with News searches.

I'll have to the whole RSS functionality to them, although Yahoo been good about integrating RSS into a number of their services, so they're probably already working on it.

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