Video Search: CastTV, Dabble, Pixsy and Nexidia
Bambi Francisco has a nice article on Always On about video search companies.
From the article:
"CastTV doesn't search inside the video, but does a good job identifying files associated with Flash, Javascript and media plug-ins, such as the video players from Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows Media Player, Apple's Quicktime and RealNetworks'(RNWK) media player as well as the more recent players from Brightcove to VideoEgg.
Dabble.com doesn't crawl the Web for videos, but rather receives video feeds from around the Web, including bookmark services, such as del.icio.us, and community sites. As for relevancy, Dabble is ranking the videos based on how often they are included in the most channels or playlists, and how much authority the channels or playlists have.
Pixsy launched its first video search engine in July 2005, and it's similar to Dabble in that it relies on feeds. Pixsy is licensing its database to other destination sites, such as PureVideo, Info.com, and Ritzcamera.com, that want to enhance their content by giving users access to video content from around the web.
Nexidia has been around for a while and is different from the aforementioned engines because it uses phonetics. Phonetics relies on the study of sounds and the human voice and deals with the sounds themselves rather than the meaning of the words or the contexts in which they are used in languages. It works pretty well. It's also fast. It took 4 to 5 minutes to make an entire baseball game searchable."
From the article:
"CastTV doesn't search inside the video, but does a good job identifying files associated with Flash, Javascript and media plug-ins, such as the video players from Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows Media Player, Apple's Quicktime and RealNetworks'(RNWK) media player as well as the more recent players from Brightcove to VideoEgg.
Dabble.com doesn't crawl the Web for videos, but rather receives video feeds from around the Web, including bookmark services, such as del.icio.us, and community sites. As for relevancy, Dabble is ranking the videos based on how often they are included in the most channels or playlists, and how much authority the channels or playlists have.Pixsy launched its first video search engine in July 2005, and it's similar to Dabble in that it relies on feeds. Pixsy is licensing its database to other destination sites, such as PureVideo, Info.com, and Ritzcamera.com, that want to enhance their content by giving users access to video content from around the web.
Nexidia has been around for a while and is different from the aforementioned engines because it uses phonetics. Phonetics relies on the study of sounds and the human voice and deals with the sounds themselves rather than the meaning of the words or the contexts in which they are used in languages. It works pretty well. It's also fast. It took 4 to 5 minutes to make an entire baseball game searchable."
Labels: Brightcove
posted by daniel davenport at 10:08 AM
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The development of video search will certainly add more content gathering online. We'll watch to see how it applies to our programs on TasteTV (http://www.TasteTV.com)
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