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~ Upload video? No, but TVEyes "can respond immediately to any request to
add TV channel or Radio station coverage."
Yahoo Video Search
Yahoo News Video
http://video.yahoo.com/
http://news.yahoo.com/video
Yahoo video search is one of the most popular on the web and for good reason. It
draws from many sources across the web and around the world, and it has a
powerful advanced search. Yahoo video search is one of the few that has an explicit
site delimiter. If, for example, I only want to search for videos from the BBC, on the
advanced search page, I would select "only search in this domain/site:" and enter
[bbc.co.uk]. The syntax for this search (with or without keywords) is
[fromsite:bbc.co.uk] if you prefer to use the simple search interface. The other
advanced search options are to limit your search by format, size, or duration. Yahoo
video advanced and simple search recognize + (must include), - (must exclude), and
double quotes for a phrase.
Yahoo video search has another excellent option in the form of channels. Channels
are collections of videos created by a common source; clicking on a "channel"
displays all video results from that source. Unfortunately, there does not appear to
be any central list of all channels. The best way to find the channels is to do the
following: on the Yahoo video homepage, click the "Categories" tab, then select
"News." Now you will see the channels listed, e.g., ABC News, CBS News, CBS.ca,
AP, Reuters News, etc. Selecting a specific channel will show you all the available
videos from that channel. To save channels to your list of favorites, you must be a
registered member of Yahoo
In late 2006, Yahoo and CBS "announced an exclusive video syndication agreement
in which local news video from 16 of CBS's owned stations will be made available on
Yahoo! to the Internet's largest news audience. The relationship...marks the first
video agreement between a network-owned television station group and an Internet
news provider.,,12o Yahoo's video focus has always been on commercial and not
homemade video, the opposite of the YouTube/Google approach, even though
Yahoo does have a video site that tries to compete with YouTube. Yahoo already
had deals with CBS's "60 Minutes," as well as with ABC, Disney, and CNN. This deal
is with local news CBS affiliates. While some are criticizing Yahoo's approach to
offering video from commercial/professional sources, it is an approach that
continues to work for them. When users want to find and view news videos, they do
not think YouTube, they think Yahoo News Video. I use it heavily not only because
of the number and quality of videos available but also because it is very easy to use,
120 Michael Liedtkey, "Yahoo adds CBS news to video lineup," AP/San Francisco in
Businessweek.com, 16 October 2006,
(24 October 2006).
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