untangling_the_web

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the videos open at the Yahoo site, and you do not need to register to find and view
the videos.
Summarv:
~ Sources of video data: searches wide variety of video sources across the
web, including user-submitted videos.
~ Video viewed: at originating site using that site's default video player.
~ Search options: keyword searching; + (must include), - (must exclude), and
double quotes for a phrase; limit search to specific site [fromsite:domain];
search by format, size, or length of video.
~ Sort options: None; listed by relevance.
~ Upload video? Yes.
YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/
If you have heard of only one online video and video search site, it's probably
YouTube, the most popular such site by far, garnering almost 43 percent of all visits
to video websites in mid-2006. 121 YouTube is currently serving 100 million videos per
day, with more than 65,000 videos being uploaded daily.122 YouTube started as a
personal video sharing site and opened to the public in February 2005. While other
video sites try to mix commercial and homemade videos, individual users create
almost everything at YouTube. However, because of YouTube's phenomenal
success, some commercial enterprises have latched onto the site's popularity to
promote their own products via videos. Most notably, YouTube now offers official
movie trailers and promotion videos from established media companies.
It came as a surprise to no one when Google bought YouTube in late 2006 (when
Video replaced Froogle on the Google homepage, that was a pretty clear indication
of Google's direction). But this is a gamble, possibly a big gamble. Not everyone has
forgotten what happened to Napster; Mark Cuban, chairman of HDNet (among other
things) says in his blog, "It will be interesting to see what happens next and what
happens in the copyright world. I still think Google Lawyers will be a busy, busy
bunch. I dont think you can sue Google into oblivion, but as others have mentioned,
if Google gets nailed one single time for copyright violation, there are going to be
121 "Hitwise Data Shows Overall Visits to Video Search Sites Up 164%," Hitwise Competitive
Intelligence, 24 May 2006,
(24 October 2006).
122 YouTube Fact Sheet, YouTube.com, (24 October 2006).
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