Search Video Clips from Popular Video Sharing Sites In One Place

How do you find videos on the web related to some topic? The Youtube website is probably a good place to start but if you confine the search only to YouTube, you will miss so much exciting stuff that exists in other places.

Google Video, MySpace, DailyMotion, iFilm, Metacafe, Revver, Veoh, Reuters, Yahoo! Videos, BrightCove, MSN Soapbox, AOL, Grouper...these video sharing websites may not be as big as YouTube but they still have a great fan following and host tons of video clips that may well be of your interest.

We often ignore searching video content on these "non-YouTube" sites because of lack of time - fortunately, this problem is now a thing of the past with uLinkx - a comprehensive video search engine to help you conveniently search multiple video websites from one place.

uLinkx provides RSS search feeds for your video search queries. And you can also watch any of these videos without leaving the uLinkx website - no more hitting the back or forward buttons in your browser.

My favorite feature is the Live Video search which is like a common wrapper for all video sharing sites. You execute a live query on YouTube or sites right inside uLinkx.

Other than video search, uLinkx can be used for bookmarking video clips from multiple sites or organizing them in video playlists. [image a single playlist that streams videos clips coming from different sources like YouTube, Metacafe and Google Video]

Wishlist - more customizable RSS feeds and support for BrightCove and Blip.tv. I also faced problems subscribing to the Video search feeds in Newsgator but they worked fine inside Google Personalized homepage.

uLinkx.com | Bookmarklet | Developer Blog | All In One Search

The mother of all search engines: Google

http://www.google.com/

Everybody who surfs the internet, for whatever reason it might be, they most probably know about Google. It is one of the fastest search engines available to humans.

Google has a wide range of services other than search engine. But many people probably do not know about them. Being an avid user of Google services (Search, Email, Blog, etc) I can tell almost all Google services are better than others, faster, and innovative. Google comes up with so many services that for the first couple of months it releases the BETA version only. And to top it all – all Google services are free. Here is list of Google services.

Gmail (Google’s Email)
Google entered the email world with a blast by providing 1 GB (currently 2.6+ GB) of space for email and the fastest web based email service - Gmail.

Google News
Google News searches news from almost all major news publications. Fast and organized.

Google Earth
With Google Earth one can literally zoom into any city and get a satellite picture of the earth. Believe it or not but you can actually see the buildings, parks, roads, etc for real.

Google Talk
Google’s answer to Yahoo Chat, MSN Messenger, MIRC, and AOL.

Google Desktop
The fastest search engine you can install on your computer. Google Desktop indexes all the files on your computer, which makes the search process fast. Displaying of search result is also amazing and very creative.

Blogger
Google’s blog web site

Hello
Google’s photo management web site.

Picasa
Google’s photo management software.

Google Alert
Receive news and search results via email

Google Answers
Ask a question, set a price, get an answer

Google Blog Search
Find blogs on your favorite topics

Google Book Search
Search the full text of books

Google Directory
Browse the web by topic

Google Groups
Create mailing lists and discussion groups

Google Images
Search for images on the web

Google Labs
Try out new Google products

Google Mobile
Use Google on your mobile phone

Google Scholar
Search scholarly papers

Google Special Searches
Search within specific topics

Google University Search
Search a specific school’s website

Google Web Search Features
Do more with search

Google Translate
View web pages in other languages

Google Toolbar
Add a search box to your browser

Google Code
Download APIs and open source code

Google Pack
A free collection of essential software

Google Pack Screensaver
Photo screensaver

Google Toolbar
Search toolbar

Want to know more or use the above mentioned Google services? Just type the name of the Google Service you want to know more or use at http://www.google.com/ and hit the search button.

A Google user
“There is not a single day when I do not use Google for any of my needs. How do you think I reached Deewane Mastane? Through Google. How do you think I found all those sites where you can hack passwords and awesome stuff? Through Google. Google has many unknown features too (HINT: try clicking on the ‘more’ option at the top when you visit the site). There are also parameters you can place in the search box to help you search better. Go ahead and experiment my friends.”

Posted by: Kuldip Garhwal

Your search for image stops here: Getty Images

Website address
http://www.gettyimages.com/

Tagline
The world’s leading provider of imagery, films and digital services.

About
Getty Images offers royalty free and copy righted image. Getty Images is the best in its field. “The world’s most powerful distribution platform, gettyimages.com enables you to search, purchase and download the finest photography, illustration, film and editorial images; commission world-class assignment photography; and efficiently create, manage, share and distribute your marketing materials - all in one place. Gettyimages.com serves an average of 2.3 million unique visitors each month with over 2.3 billion thumbnails and 161 million page views. Nearly 100 percent of the company’s visual content is delivered digitally.”

Registered Users
There are many advantages, if you become a registered user. Firstly and most important for people who are looking for free images, the Getty Images Logo (watermark) will be removed from images. Secondly, I don’t know if they still do it, but when I first registered, they sent me several big posters via mail. It’s worth it, believe me. Thirdly, you can “add items to your shopping cart, images to your Lightboxes, film clips to your Clipbins, and submit image and film research requests.”

Products and Services

• Creative Imagery (Contemporary photography, illustration and images.
• Film (Commercial quality cinematography)
• Editorial Imagery (News, sports, and entertainment.)
• Photo Assignments (Award-winning photographers covering every style of assignment photography.)
• Media Management (On-demand digital asset management)

Image Collections wholly owned by Getty Images: All Sport, Digital Vision, Hulton Archive, Image Bank, Photo Disc, Photographer’s Choice, Reportage, Stone +, Stone, and Taxi.

Image Collections distributed by Getty Images: 3D Clinic, Altrendo Images, America 24/7, Asia Images, Aurora, Beateworks, Blend, Botanica, Brand X Pictures, The Bridgeman Art Library, Deximage, DK Stock, DK Images, Food Collection, Food Pix, F Stop, Gallo Images, Illustration Works, Image 100, Image Source, Lonely Planet Images, Medio Images, National Geographic, Panoramic Images, Photo Alto Agency, Pix Land, Queerstock, Robert Harding’s World Imagery, Rubberball Productions, Samba Photos, Science Faction, Stockimage, Stockbyte, Stockdisc, Thinkstock, Time & Life Pictures, Visuals Unlimited, and Workbook Stock.

Posted by: Kuldip Garhwal

Wikipedia, the free ENCYCLOPEDIA

http://en.wikipedia.org/ is the communal encyclopedia that anyone can edit. The content of Wikipedia is free, written collaboratively by people from all around the world. This website is a wiki, which means that anyone with access to an Internet-connected computer can edit entries simply by clicking on the edit this page link.
This site is terrific if you desire knowledge. Just type what you are looking for and presto you get information, pictures, links to the topic. Even as you read the information, there are hyperlinks incase you want more information on a particular topic in the information provided.

I love the format of this site. I was actually shocked to know that this site is actually updated with information by people like YOU and ME. In other words, they don’t have a department or staff who update the knowledge base of the site. The only thing the staff does is verify the information updated by you.

The only drawback of this site is the search is not strong enough. For instance: I wanted to search the ‘THRILLER’ video from Michael Jackson. No matter what I typed with the word Thriller, it never led me to information on Michael Jackson’s thriller video. BUT, when I typed Michael Jackson, it gave me all the information on the king of pop and from there I was able to click on a link related to his thriller video.

Still I would say it is a great resource of knowledge. It goes deep into the search you made and gives you the maximum information needed. I find no harm in trying a hand on this website.

Wikiquote is run by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which operates several other multilingual and free-content projects:

Wiktionary - http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/en:Main_Page
Dictionary and thesaurus

Wikiquote - http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page
Quotations & Proverbs

Wikibooks - http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/en:Main_Page
Free textbooks and manuals

Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
The free encyclopedia

Wikisource - http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page:English
Free source documents

Wikispecies - http://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Directory of species

Wikinews - http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page
Free content news source

Meta-Wiki - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wikimedia project coordination

Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Shared media repository

Contributed by: Anonymous, Posted by: Yogesh Goel

Do you want to know How the Stuff around you Work ?????

http://www.howstuffworks.com

Did you ever wonder :

-How the GRAMMYs Work?
-How Swearing Works?
-How Cold Heat Works?

No, isn’t it. Well, here is a website which will answer even why you have to sneeze and now it will even tell you why there are so many channels, etc, etc. The very first page will open thousands of avenues for you. And you will just keep asking for more. Isn’t it fabulous. Humans will make history and create histories I guess.

HowStuffWorks is an online publishing company widely recognized as a leading source for clear, unbiased, reliable explanations of how everything actually works. With thousands of articles, content features and illustrations populating ten different content channels, HowStuffWorks.com attracts millions of unique visitors each month.

Link Contributed by: Amit Singhania, Posted by: Yogesh Goel

FILE Searching - Music, Images, Videos, Drivers !!!

http://www.filesearching.com/

From DvD ripped Metallica Videos to Latest ISOs of all available OSes to Innumerable list of Movies, Filesearching.com has everything for you.Filesearching.com, has a database comprising of some real cool ftp servers(mostly Russian) that are mostly on and provide you with with almost everything. The advance search tab allows you to refine your search and supports some useful features like size specs, filetype, HIde/Unhide Unix system related files etc.

It has a huge database of drivers also categorised under-

• Video
• Sound
• CD ROM
• Scanner
• BIOS
• Printer
• Modem
• Monitor
• Network
• SCSI, IDE, RAID

So you see how helpful this website is. You can say it is another form of a search engine designed and presented and helpful in a very different way.

Give it a try!!!

Contributed by: Prateek Gupta, Posted by: Yogesh Goel

Wondering which new movie to watch? Visit Rotten Tomatoes

http://www.rottentomatoes.com

Tagline
Movies and Games, Reviews and Previews

About
Wondering which new movie to watch this weekend? Want to know which movie did great at the box office and which received rotten tomatoes? Visit RottenTomatoes.com. This site not only tells you about movies but it also has lot of game reviews and previews.

Each movie listed at Rotten Tomatoes has a snippet, a review, trailer(s), clip(s), and a forum and news section of its own. You can also find out how big of an opening a particular movie received in terms of US$ or how much money did it make at the box office.

You can even buy movie tickets and posters, DVDs, games, and more from the Rotten Tomatoes online shop.

Rotten Tomatoes Recommendation Tools

• Certified Fresh - When a film has 40 reviews, 5 of which are from Cream of the Crop critics, and has a Tomatometer of 75% or higher, it is Certified Fresh by Rotten Tomatoes. It stays “Certified Fresh” unless the film falls below 60%.
  
• TomatoPicker - Browse through our database of over 100,000 movie titles. Filter your results by Tomatometer, genre, subgenre, mpaa rating, decade, year, and/or keywords.
  
• Top Movies - Here, we offer the best reviewed movies of Rotten Tomatoes and the winners from various Awards categories, such as the Oscars and Golden Globes.

Why the site is called ‘Rotten Tomatoes’?
”Back in the days of the open theaters, when a play was particularly atrocious, the audience expressed their dissatisfaction by not only booing and hissing at the stage, but throwing whatever was at hand — vegetables and fruits included. Hence the name Rotten Tomatoes.”

Posted by: Kuldip Garhwal (Website suggested to me by Robyn Barker)

First multilingual search capabilities on the Internet.

http://www.altavista.com

After Google you must have all heard about this search engine. It is good and very result oriented also. Check its features to see what it has to provide for u all.

HIGHLIGHTS
• Delivers Internet’s first Web index (1995)
• First multilingual search capabilities on the Internet
• First Internet search engine to launch Image, Audio, and Video search capabilities
• Most advanced Internet search features and capabilities: multimedia search, translation & language recognition, and specialty search
• Awarded 61 search-related patents, more than any other Internet search company

All in all I would say that you have one more search engine in hand to satisfy your search needs.

Posted by: Yogesh Goel

Lots of features to get search from!!!

http://www.ask.com

AskJeeves is yet another cool search engine which has unlimited options for your search fundas. Just look down for the list f features which it has to provide.

Advanced Web Search
-Advanced Search features allow you to specify the type of web results you want. Try it out and see what the Advanced Search features can do for you.

Basic Site Preferences
-Personalize your search experience by defining how you would like your search results displayed.

Binoculars Site Preview
-If you have broadband and want to avoid unnecessary trips between your search results and the destination sites you are seeking, then the Binoculars site preview tool is for you. This feature allows searchers to preview websites by simply mousing over the binoculars icon within their search results. Easily figure out if you’ve found the site you’re looking for without having to leave Ask.com-saving both time and energy. This feature is only available for broadband-including DSL and Cable high-speed connections.
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Conversions
-Use our simple conversion calculator to find practical information such as world currency, time, temperature, data, weight, length, area, and even cooking/volume conversions.

Dictionary Search
-Find quick definitions or easily search online dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri and more.

Famous People Search
-Find information about your favorite celebrities and historical figures.

Map Search
-Find maps of any location in the U.S. or Canada along with easy driving directions.

Movie Search
-Find the latest information for upcoming and recent film releases.

News Search
-Find the latest news stories from around the world.

Picture Search
-Find photos and images of thousands of items, people and places.

Popular Searches: Jeeves IQ
-Find the most popular search terms based on millions of Ask.com searches. Learn more about your fellow searchers’ tastes, trends and habits.

Product Search
-Find products based on reviews, features, price, and store location.

Smart Answers
-Smart Answers provide a direct and innovative approach to delivering the information you are trying to find. Located at the top of your web search results, Smart Answers are contextual search units that can provide you with direct access to relevant information, search features & deep-linked web resources.

Spell Check
Find correct spelling suggestions and ensure the best search results possible.

Stock Search
-Find up-to-date stock quotes for all publicly traded US companies on all US markets.

Weather Search
-Find current weather conditions or 7-day forecast information for over 130,000 cities around the world.

White Pages Search
-Find white page listings covering the entire U.S. without opening a phone book or calling an operator.

So people get going and make your senses running for what you want.

by: Yogesh Goel