Video Search Engines

March 17, 2008

Video is huge business these days and one way people are quickly and easily finding the ones they want is through the use of video search engines?

Due in large part to the massive popularity of Youtube, there’s been a huge amount of new video sites being introduced. You probably already know many of the bigger players such as Aol, DailyMotion, Google Videos, Imeem, Myspace TV, Revver, Stage 6, MetaCafe and Veoh. The list goes on and on.

A video search engine will aggregate video from multiple sources and display it on one platform. Video details are usually published with a thumbnail image so you can see what the video looks like before you click through to the video site.

With so many videos it often becomes a huge task to sort through them all and quickly find a video that you want. To streamline the time it takes to find the video you want you should consider using a video search engine.

Here’s a list of some of the top sites to use to shorten your search times:

Creative Commons Search Engine. Find free to use multimedia files.
http://creativecommons.org/video/

Yahoo Video Search
http://video.search.yahoo.com/

Aol search for audio, video and MP3
http://video.aol.com/

Over 18 million hours of video at Blinkx.
http://www.blinkx.com/

Pixsy
http://www.pixsy.com/

Pure
http://www.purevideo.com/

Search video on the internet at Truveo
http://www.truveo.com/

Lycos Multimedia
http://multimedia.lycos.com/

VidSea
http://www.vidsea.com/

Altavista Video Search.
http://www.altavista.com/video/default

Search the Mamma of all search engines.
http://www.mamma.com

search for your favorite web videos
http://dabble.com/

Foooooo, wow it’s a wierd domain name but they have over 110 million results.
http://en.fooooo.com/

EZSearch
http://www.everyzing.com/

Search the web for pages, images, Wikipedia or videos.
http://www.exalead.com/search

ClipBlast
http://www.clipblast.com/

If you’re looking to create your own viral video or make a product, doing research into what people are looking for is a valuable step. Take a look at how long the video has been up and how many views it’s received. This will give you a good idea how effective a particular niche is for a video of your own.

Got any more favorite video search engines? If so leave them in the comments section below.

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