Comments on: Whatever Happened to Video Search?

By: rbsshow

rbsshow — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:23:06 +0000

video search website – http://www.dingohunt.com

new technology you should check out.

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[...] Gives Video Search a Try (You Can, Too) Video search engines haven’t found their place in the world quite yet, but after what happened with web search it’d be stupid to count them [...]

By: Liz Gannes

Liz Gannes — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:45:35 +0000

re: Blinkx — they were on some versions of the speaker list but not on the schedule. Not sure what happened there. But the panel did note their absence and also backhandedly referenced their adult user base.

By: Daisy Whitney

Daisy Whitney — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:38:57 +0000

Hey Liz:

Glad you stopped by so we don't have to! But I agree -- a lot of these startups talked a big game about competing in video search, but it just seems like consumers aren't going to include "video" in their search query, but that they are going to go to Google and type in "Grey's Anatomy" or "Gary Vaynerchuck" instead

Daisy

By: David Spark

David Spark — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:07:28 +0000

Yeah Liz, I stopped by as well and interviewed Gary Baker, CEO of ClipBlast! His reaction was the same. It’s in its nascent stages. I think the problem is, people don’t even THINK to search for video let alone do it.

I did though get Gary on video talking about the importance of creating video. He’s ambitious that video results will be the majority of all search results.
http://www.sparkminute.com/?p=303

By: sally

sally — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:37:52 +0000

What about blinkx? The leader in web porn search. use the key word adult in the search and you will find out where they make all the ad revenue from.

By: Rakesh Agrawal

Rakesh Agrawal — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:50:29 +0000

My simple explanation is that I don’t think anyone’s figured out a video search product/technology that’s really compelling and works for the general consumer.

The place where “video search technologies” have been most successful, to date, are in vertical markets like national security / military applications (see Nexidia, Virage/Autonomy — it’s where I think they do most of their business today) and media monitoring and TV advertising monitoring (we do the former and some of the latter).

But anyone who says “people don’t want to search for video, browsing is just fine, thank you” might be well served to read Google’s corporate history (http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html) where the first chapter includes this line:

One portal CEO told [Larry and Sergey], “…Our users don’t really care about search.”

Rakesh Agrawal
President, CEO
SnapStream Enterprise
http://www.snapstream.com/enterprise/

By: Colin Donald

Colin Donald — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:12:53 +0000

Hulu have said openly that they want to “become the Google of online video.” See an in-depth analysis here:

http://www.futurescape.co.uk/2008/03/murdochs-hulu-d.html

By: James Gardikner

James Gardikner — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:13:44 +0000

I am personally quite surprised that Video and Audio blog search engines are not more common. I really like listening to my favorite podcasts. It would be great if I would find "That time they mentioned X on podcast Y"...

Considering Voice recognition is suppose to be so advanced now.. This is quite surprising.

I had expected google to ad it to the general google search by now.

James