Video Search

Fifteen of the best sites for searching for videos or content within videos. Know of another site that should be listed here? Leave your suggestion at the bottom of this page.

1. Blinkx - Video search service pulls from many multiple sources across the Web. (www.blinkx.com)

2. Truveo - Video search engine allows you to search for both free video content and videos you can purchase, from many multiple sources. (www.truveo.com)

3. The Daily Tube - Offers video search as well as human-edited reviews of every video in categories including music videos, humor, celebrities, late night personalities, politics, sports and more. Sign up for their e-mail list to get the best new videos sent right to your inbox. (thedailytube.com)

4. uLinkx - Search for videos across multiple popular video sites, including YouTube, MySpace, Google, Yahoo, MetaCafe, Revver and more. (www.ulinkx.com)

5. AltaVista Video Search - Search for videos from across the Web with the video search section from one of the very first Internet search engines. (www.altavista.com)

6. Google Video - Google’s video search engine allows you to search video that has been uploaded to Google or YouTube and some other partners, but is not a true search of all video on the Web. (video.google.com)

7. Yahoo! Video - Does not search across the entire Web, but contains hundreds of videos across many categories uploaded by Yahoo and its users for you to search through. (video.search.yahoo.com)

8. CastTV Gears Up for Video Search (With Screenshots) - Liz Gannes previews the video search engine CastTV, currently running in private beta for invited users, in this June 1, 2007 blog post. (newteevee.com)

9. Firms Large and Small Labor to Refine Video Search - January 26, 2007 article on the lack of a strong search service for video content, the potential windfall for companies that get it right, and what some big and little companies are currently doing in the area of video search. (www.washingtonpost.com)

10. YouTube - Video sharing site owned by Google offers thousands of videos to search through, but search is limited to what is uploaded to YouTube, not to videos on other Web sites. (www.youtube.com)

11. TV Guide Online Video Guide - Searchable database of “professional” videos, meaning movie trailers, clips from TV and other mainstream media content. (video.tvguide.com)

12. VideoJug - Site only searches for videos on its own site, but offers hundreds and possibly thousands of videos showing you how to do just about any task. (www.videojug.com)

13. Ze Boudoir - Site guides you to online videos in several categories, including movies, entertainment, cooking and general video hubs. (zeboudoir.com)

14. Now Watch This: YouTube Videos are Part of the Picture in Google Search - January 26, 2007 article on Google changing its Google Video to a video search engine and keeping its purchased company YouTube as the place for videos to be posted. Previously Google Video and YouTube had offered similar services. (www.usatoday.com)

15. CastTV Will Revolutionize Video Search - October, 2006 article by TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington on his experience with an upcoming video search service called CastTV. (www.techcrunch.com)