untangling_the_web

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RooTV
~ Sort options: by date or relevance
~ Upload video? No
http://www.rootv.com/
RooTV or Roo is a powerful video search tool, but I find it annoying because it
automatically plays a video when you visit the homepage (and it really doesn't want
to stop!). There is a simple keyword search but no way to limit the search to just
news, for example. The videos play at the RooTV site, using Windows Media Player
or RealPlayer. RooTV requires ActiveX; if you are going to use RooTV, I recommend
opening the site in Internet Explorer (you will have to add it to your Trusted Zone) so
you do not need to install an ActiveX plug-in in Firefox or Netscape, something I
would discourage. Sources include Reuters and AP. Supported by advertising.
Summary:
~ Sources of video data: news from sources across the web, including Reuters
and AP.
~ Video viewed: all videos play at the RooTV site using either Windows Media
Player or RealPlayer; requires ActiveX.
~ Search options: keyword search only (searches for ALL terms).
~ Sort options: none.
~ Upload video? No.
Searchforvideo
Searchforvideo IM Service
Searchforvideo Reel Time Lens
http://www.searchforvideo.com/home/index.html
http://www.searchforvideo.com/misc/im.jsp
http://www.searchforvideo.com/misc/reel.jsp
Searchforvideo is one of the best video search engines available. Searchforvideo
searches a vast number of sources, including BBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, AP via
iViliage, Reuters via RooTV, RedOrbit, the Discovery Networks, and many others.
The site also has separate pages by topic-news, sports, entertainment, business,
technology, health, and viral-where users can browse the top videos of the day.
Interestingly, even though there is no search by source, I found that if you use the
name of a source and a keyword, that seems to work very well because you are
searching on all metadata associated with a video clip. For example, [reuters iran]
returns only videos from Reuters sources containing the keyword "iran":
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