Google and Yahoo! have both rolled out their new video search capabilities. Google Video Search is in beta and Yahoo! Video Search is live as a tab on its front page but does carry the beta tag as well.
So, immediately I had to run to Yahoo! and do a video search for “Andy Griffith” to see if I could find some old reruns indexed by the new video search engine. Sure enough!
Not only were there old clips of reruns in the results but commercials for Sanka coffee and interviews with Andy as well. Some of the clips ran only a minute or so, but one of the interviews ran for a whole 27 minutes. Not bad, I thought!
The implications for video search (outside of all of the copyright and trademark problems) are many. Researchers, news organizations, political parties and consumers alike are likely take advantage of the new technology in years to come.
Once again the search engine wars heat up and Yahoo! Video Search has fired the first shot across the Google bow.
