The Top 10 Alternative Video Search Engines
Last week Read/WriteWeb focused on Online Music, and we covered my Top 10 Alternative Music Search Engines (later amended to add the Musicmachine). This week, R/WW is looking into Online Video, so naturally I went looking for 10 good Alternative Video Search Engines. But I needed a way to efficiently evaluate them. For Music Search, I asked each search engine to find Rihanna’s hit song Umbrella, which was probably too easy.
So this time I decided to mix it up a bit. I asked each Video search engine to first find for me Michael Wesch’s “Web 2.0 - The Machine is Us/ing Us” sometimes referred to as the most watched video in the history of the Internet with over 3.2 million views on YouTube alone. It is certainly my #1 video, and if you’ve never seen it, all 10 of these search engines were able to find it, although some more easily than others. But that usually just involved adjusting the keywords until you got a match.
That was the easy test. If you couldn’t find that video, you should just pack it in. The hard test was to find my favorite SNL (Saturday Night Live) skit - Nicholas Cage doing “Tiny Elvis.” My control was Google Video, which only had 6 hits, and only 1 was this video. A pretty good challenge. Here are the results in alphabetical order.
blinkx: Yes to both.
clipblast! Update: Reader found Tiny Elvis!
dabble: Correction: Yes to both.
everyzing: No for Tiny Elvis.
exalead: No for Tiny Elvis.
Fooooo (newcomer): Yes to both.
metacafe: No for Tiny Elvis.
pixsy: Yes to both.
PureVideo: Yes to both.
VidSea (newcomer): Yes to both.
Scientific? Hardly. Accurate? - yes, as far as it goes. I looked for a “relevant” match on the first page, but you can double-check me. Fair? I think so. Video search is video search, after all.
How about you? Care to try some? If you do, please leave a comment!
And thank you, thank you very much.
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August 21st, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Hi Charles,
I’m a little puzzled as to why Dabble didn’t have the videos you searched for:
http://dabble.com/search/node/Web+2.0+-+The+Machine+is+Us/ing+Us
brings up this:
http://dabble.com/node/7741074
and
http://dabble.com/search/node/tiny+elvis
brings up this:
http://dabble.com/node/21486601
I think Dabble passed, no?
mary
August 21st, 2007 at 3:22 pm
Mary is correct. dabble has “tiny Elvis’
The error was mine, and the post has been corrected.
My apologies to dabble!
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August 22nd, 2007 at 6:08 pm
I found Tiny Elvis on ClipBlast.
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August 24th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
I’m surprised you didn’t include trooker in this list - it’s new, so maybe you weren’t aware of it, but it has an amazingly relevant video search and lets you build VJ sets to send to people. I tried your tests on it and both results came up right on top
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September 4th, 2007 at 7:25 am
I loooove Exalead !!!!!!!!
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December 27th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
Yeah, I’ve visited and used those video search engine sites to find videos.. Mostly, they were very impressive and good to watch online videos easily but all similar, nothing special..So personally I hope to see new innovate engine of video search …
February 14th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Are all the sites going to keep removing video if you used a copywright song? I used to have so many videos with whatever music I wanted up on youtube and now youtube takes them down.
February 15th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
PredictAd video search - closed beta, very cool..
http://searchassist.blogspot.com/2008/01/predictad-video-search-holy-moses.html
March 8th, 2008 at 6:27 am
There are several video search aggregators that cost investors $millions of dollars to develop. However, most only query a mere 1/2 dozen or so sites.
There is one site though that queries nearly 1,000 video sites. It’s both a video search engine and a site directory.
Ladies and Gents, I give you http://www.videodouble.net/ .
…may it serve you well.
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April 6th, 2008 at 9:45 am
Naja, es kommt ja auch auf die Zielgruppe an. Danach müßte man es sortieren. Alter und Geschlecht etc.
April 9th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
i found a good video search engine , it crawls sites like tudou, megavideo and youku along with allthe other popular video websiteslike youtube and google
http://www.findvideolinks.com
April 27th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Hi,
I have compiled a list of more than 500 of YouTube-like sites with their niches, and the list is still growing.
Now, I am doing the same with video search engines. The list counts only 30 of them up to now, but it will grow within the next weeks (and hopefully with the help of the visitors). You can check it at http://www.ilikesharingvideos.com/video-search-engines/en/
So if you are interested in video search engines, publishing your own videos, or even online video marketing, give an eye to this site, it worths it.
Cheers
May 13th, 2008 at 7:47 am
but there were few large providers forgotten or
June 6th, 2008 at 6:24 am
Good article! your site let me learn more. Thanks!Pls keep up to date.
June 19th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Die beste alternative Video Search Engines => AltSearchEngines
June 20th, 2008 at 9:51 am
Die Liste ist doch nicht mehr aktuell und schon bisschen alt. Das dürfte jetzt doch eh schon bisschen anders aussehen.
July 15th, 2008 at 2:45 am
you can search videos in http://video.vizhole.com or http://www.vizhole.com
July 29th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Super Suchmaschine!
August 3rd, 2008 at 7:51 am
Ich bleibe bei der großen Suchmaschine mit den bunten Buchstaben.
August 5th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Thank’s for this Site.
I found the answer to my question.
Jens
September 8th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Yes to both, and much faster than other video search engines.
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