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YAHOO VIDEO SEARCH: MORE A CONTENT ALLIANCE PORTAL THAN A TRUE SEARCH ENGINE

August 7, 2005



I've been trying out the new Yahoo! Video Search feature.

I gotta tell ya-this resource is sooo incomplete it's not even worthy of the term "Beta." Which they don't use, BTW.

The nicest thing I can say is the resource offers an Advanced Search by format. You can specify rich video clip searches for Real, Windows Media, QuickTime, Flash, MPEG and even .avi.

But what good is video search with a limited inventory? I gave this tool a shot with a search request to show me streaming video listings for Peter Krause, who played the just-deceased Nate on Six Feet Under.

Because I blog about the show elsewhere, I happen to know there are hundreds of videos with Krause.

Instead, I got back a search results page without any specific Six Feet Under references. Lots of hits for Peter Krause the golfer, too.

In looking at cited sources for Krause, as well as those from several other searches, I noticed a pattern. Some of the same sites appeared over and over. This tells me that Yahoo!'s Video Search has been launched more as a portal to clips from preferred content providers (like iFilm) than as a truly partner-agnostic scrape.

Oh, one more thing. I searched for "Paris Hilton" with Safe Search on. One thumbnail I got showed Paris topless. The other showed Paris very, very busy in a most personal way.




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