And now, a search engine for video surveillance
His name is John Honovich, and if you’re a video surveillance professional, you’re gonna love him. If you’re not, then I’m sure you can still be platonic. Three days ago, John released a search engine, IPVideoMarket
IPVideoMarket is optimized for video surveillance professionals, or even those avid video surveillance enthusiasts who don’t necessarily get paid for their surveillance, but just love the art, if there is such a thing. Important info, pun intended – it’s a .info site, not .com.
What it is, basically, is a search tool whittled to a very fine point to focus just on video surveillance articles. By filtering out millions of pages into the most relevant 100,000 results, John claims that you should be able to quickly find accurate and helpful video surveillance information.
General purpose search engines, of course, cannot assume the intent of a searcher, so they return a lot of information that is not relevant. Because this search engine is only for video surveillance, the engine can aggressively filter information not important for our profession.
Now, I’m no professional so technically I don’t know anything about video surveillance beyond pointing my cell phone at, say, a tree, and taking a 10 second clip, but I was still able to search for something. Thinking about video surveillance, the first question that occurred to me was, “Who should we first and foremost be surveying by video?”
A search for Iran revealed an article about a hydroelectric dam and how it uses IP video to transmit images back to Tehran about the dam, like so:
Not the titillating excitement I was looking for, but maybe that’s a good thing. Honovich was correct, though, in that I didn’t get millions of irrelevant results /a la /Google. He promised me video surveillance articles, and that’s what I got.
“Our search engine assumes the searcher only wants information relevant to video surveillance. As such, very valuable articles, whitepapers and industry research are much more likely to be found with our search. We hope this helps industry professionals find the key information they need to make better decisions,” said Honovich.
The search engine also tracks in-depth coverage of key video surveillance companies including 3VR, 3xLogic, ACTi, ADT, Aimetis, American Dynamics, Agent Vi, ArecontVision, Avigilon, Axis Communications, BRS Labs, Cieffe, Cernium, Cisco, Dedicated Micros, DIGIOP, DvTel, Envysion, Exacq, Flir, Gentec, Grandeye, IQinVision, Intransa, Firetide, FluidMesh, IBM, Immervision, Indigovision, Intellivid, Intransa,ioimage, IQinvision, Milestone Systems, Mobotix, ObjectVideo, Panasonic, Pelco, Pivot3, SightLogix, Vidsys and Vivotek.
Now, if someone were to build a search engine that searched only gorillas, that would be fun. Someone should get on that.
