Yahoo! launch Yahoo! Video
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: June 2nd, 2006 Published in: YahooToday, Yahoo! announced the launch of an upgraded video search service (http://video.yahoo.com/). The service boasts features such as:
- Redesigned interface.
- Videos from many sources including user RSS feeds and major video publishers.
- “Channels” setup to allow users to view content produced / submitted by a common source.
- MyFavourites integration.
- Content distribution - videos can be pasted into web pages in blogs (let’s try that out).
OK my first thoughts - I still prefer Google Video search - more homepage options (Yahoo! Video seems to be more of an eBay / Amazon type feel to it).
Did a search for “comedy”. Didn’t get spectacular results (compared to using Google Video’s comedy channel) - refined the search using the channel “underground film”. Found some more promising results. Er found some dodgy porn results in the mix of some random comedy clips - thumbnail images and descriptions still live on results page (but Yahoo! have removed the actual film clips).
It seems only a few clips can be distributed (probably an option to turn this off when you submit) - so here’s a clip about street drumming for some reason Wordpress won’t let me add the code. :-/
Still prefer Google.
