posted on Thursday, December 16, 2004 1:53 PM
by
demiliani
Yahoo! Video Search
Yahoo has started a new Video Search Service (on Beta stage).
I've played with it a little bit and it seems really interesting. You've only to type the media you've interested in and Yahoo shows you some files location to download it with thumbnails of the video. The engine indexes all the major video file types, such as .avi, .mov, .mpg, .wmv and .rm and I've see that with the Advanced Search features you can restrict the search to the file type you want (really useful).
What is really interesting (as you can see on this post on Yahoo's Blog) is that the service uses RSS Feeds that can be used from Media Providers to submit their videos (Poadcasting and RSS technology).
A great service... I'm sure that also Google and MSN will start thinking about this... 