Can Video Search Engines Find What You Want?

Mark Glaser writes:  "...  So far, most video search engines will give you spotty results for what you want. You might get nothing, or you might get unrelated video. Worse yet, you might have to use a different web browser to view the video, or install special software as with America Online’s video search.  ¶  I decided to try out some of the video search engines, and wanted to see if any of them would show me video from the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. So I simply typed “2004 summer olympics” (without the quotation marks) into a few video search engines, and had pretty poor results.   Blinkx   gave me the most results, but nothing from the 2004 games. There were many more results for the Special Olympics, as well as for the upcoming 2006 Winter Olympics. ..."  Link: MediaShift at PBS.

Comments

[Jenny]

Hey, thanks for trying blinkx. Our site launched late in 2004, so there is usually more content from that day onward, though we do trawl the web for earlier and archived content as well. There will be lots of new coverage for the upcoming 2006 Winter Olympics so you should be able to find more of that soon.

We're committed to you not having to have a special viewer or software to view video, so hopefully you can find what you want easily. Thanks for your comments.

blinkx team