VideoSurf Looking for Wave of New Users
October 18, 2008
VideoSurf, a new online video search engine, is inviting people to try out its beta engine. No username or password is required.
The engine is built on “computer vision” – VideoSurf has designed it to search and “see” inside videos to index content rather than depending upon tags and descriptions that can produce spam. The goal is to return more relevant results on keyword searches.
VideoSurf’s competition is Google Video Search and blinkx. We wrote about blinkx back in May here.
VideoSurf boasts more than 10 billion videos indexed. Visit their site for more information.
As for this beta user? A test search on VS of “Simon Pegg Star Trek” listed the top result as the “Star Trek” teaser trailer, followed by an interview on “Friday Night with Jonathan Ross”, then several more trailers before other Pegg errata. Google’s top results returned only movie trailers, while blinkx listed a couple trailers followed by several interviews and media event clips.
Jessica Bratcher, October 18, 2008
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