Blogdimension is a wonderful French alternative search engine that was our Search Engine of the Day a while back. Recently they have been expanding their video search service.

Everybody knows the leading video sharing sites: YouTube and Dailymotion. But do you know the other online video sharing services? Brightcove, Metacafe, Blip.tv, 5min, the Chinese 6.cn or the French wat.tv and kiwiwid, etc?

An interesting article from the blogmagazine Website Magazine identifies 55 Internet video systems and proposes a ranking.

Indeed, this list is not comprehensive because it does not take into account online video sites from Asia. Did you know that Chinese, Japanese and Korean Internet users are among the most active users of online multimedia content? Their usage - and therefore their associated search activities - of images, photos, audio & video files is far more intense than in France, and especially more than in Europe.

At Blogdimension they have built their own index of links to video sharing systems.

Here is a short list of the online video platforms that you can access through Blogdimension:

Blip.tv (USA) Try “blip.tv/file”
Brightcove (USA) “http://www.brightcove.com/”
CNN (USA) “http://www.cnn.com/”
Flipclip (Japan) “http://www.flipclip.net/clips/”
Glumbert (USA) “http://www.glumbert.com/media”
Ifilm / Spike (USA) “http://www.ifilm.com/video”
Kiwivid (France) “http://fr.kiwivid.com”
Lulu.tv (USA) “http://www.lulu.tv/”
Metacafe (USA / Israel) “www.metacafe.com/watch”
Milkandcookies (USA) “http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/”
Myspace video (USA) “http://vids.myspace.com/”
Revver (USA) “http://revver.com/watch”
Sevenload (Germany) “http://en.sevenload.com/videos”
Twango / Nokia (USA) “http://www.twango.com/media”
Veoh.com (USA) “www.veoh.com/”
Vidilife (USA) “http://www.vidilife.com/”
Vimeo (USA) “http://www.vimeo.com/”
Wat.tv (France) “wat.tv/video”
Yahoo video (USA) “http://video.yahoo.com/video/”
Zippyvideos (Canada) “http://www.zippyvideos.com/”
5min.com (Israel) “www.5min.com/Video”
6.Cn ou 6rooms (China) “6.cn”

There are literally hundreds of thousands of links leading to these online sharing sites! But their “bot” (robot or crawler) is scanning and detecting new video sites everyday, 24/7. So the shortlist above is going to increase automatically in the next few weeks.

You can find a whole universe of video links by using Blogdimension. At the moment you will find these links to videos in the “Blogs” tab. Don’t forget that you can find loads of YouTube and Dailymotion video links via the dedicated “Video Search” tab. All the Blogdimension video links should be available under the “Video Search” tab soon.

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