Video search is a baby
Published by Steve Garfield on 22 Aug 2005 at 3:39 am.
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Scott Kirsner writes in today’s Boston Globe about searching for video on the web, Big picture still hazy in video search:
“Boston City Councilor John Tobin is one of the very few elected officials who publish a video blog on the Web. Every so often, he posts a short video dispatch from his district. Last month, he stood in front of El Oriental de Cuba, a great Cuban restaurant in Jamaica Plain that had been destroyed by a firebomb, talking about the support he and others were coordinating for the restaurant’s owners and the residents who had lived upstairs.
But try to find Tobin’s video blog using one of the major video search engines — from Google, Lycos, Singingfish, or Blinkx.tv — and you’ll come up empty. Search for the name of the restaurant, and you still get nada. Only Yahoo’s video search manages to track down the clip.
Video search is still in its infancy.”
Note:
Kirsner interviewed me for this story and I created and maintain Councillor Tobin’s blog.
