Video Search Engines
Video search engines are one of the latest kinds of great search engine to appear on the world wide web. Since more and more people have gotten broadband internet over the past few years, people now have the high speed connections necessary to watch streaming video. All of the major search engines such as Google and Yahoo now have video search options as well, and there are websites such as YouTube that specialize in only video searches and video sharing. Here are some thoughts on the kinds of video search engines available on the internet today!
What is the best video search engine? That is hard to say at the moment, as the technology is still developing. However, Google has a good video search engine with servers that are generally very fast and a wide range of clips. Yahoo's video content tends to be based around media reports, music videos, etc. with less of an emphasis on the random videos that people upload to the internet with all kinds of content. Google Video, however, tracks videos that are all over the internet and makes them all available through one simple Google search. This makes Google Video arguably the best video search engine. However, there are other strong contenders.
YouTube might also be the best of the video search engines, as it lets you find related videos in a number of ways through user created tags and suggestions alongside the currently playing clip. YouTube is possibly the best video clip search engine, with their servers making it possible to upload your own content and millions of users doing just that. It is also one of the best celeb video search engines, with its tags and suggestions making it easy to find lots of video clips for whatever celebrities you are most interested in.
While video technology on the internet is still somewhat limited; you can only get really consistent download speeds in a small window and there are sometimes problems with blurriness and buffering (slow loading), the speed of the internet is becoming greater and greater all the time. A few years from now it should be possible to watch full screen video with very little lag compared to today. It should also be possible to buy various kinds of video content online and sell your own video creations on YouTube, opening up new doors for entrepreneurship. Everyone is looking forward to the future of video search engines!
