Hulu will apparently be expanding their online video search from TV and movies to music-related content with a new partnership with Warner Music.
The first Warner artist to be featured is Muse. You can visit their Hulu page at http://www.hulu.com/muse. In the coming weeks, pages will be launched for Jason Mraz and personal fav Paramore.
You may remember that Warner pulled its vids from YouTube after the two were unable to renegotiate their contract. Finally, this past September, they reached an agreement and the music videos were put back up.
The new beta feature lets you search captions for thousands of videos across Hulu. Caption Search can be found in Hulu Labs.
When on the Hulu Labs page, scroll down to find the actual projects in Labs.
Along with caption search, Hulu is releasing “heat maps.” This graphs user interest along a timeline of a given video that has caption search.
You can find the heat map under the “Captions” tab, located under the video you’re watching. Hover over a bar on the heat map to see where it corresponds in the video.
Hot on the heels of launching a music video search last month, Yahoo! is expanding their foray into entertainment video search by adding TV Series and Popular Movie Actor refiners.
TV Series refiners allow you to filter by main characters, popular episodes, and seasons. Just search the name of the TV series and then look for the refinements on the left sidebar:
The Popular Movie Actor refiner allows you to filter by film:
YouTube is introducing machine-generated automatic captioning to YouTube. The captions can also be translated. This obviously has incredible implications for the hearing-impaired and language translation. But it also has great implications for search.
Automatic captions will be generated using Google’s automated speech recognition (ASR) technology and the same voice recognition algorithms used in Google Voice.
Additionally, auto-timing is being introduced. If you provide all the words in the video, Google will automatically time the captioning for you.
Of course, having what essentially amounts to transcripts for online video means that the text can be crawled and indexed and then yes – SEARCHED. Bring on the keyword research and seo scriptwriting for online videos!
YouTube is introducing machine-generated automatic captioning to YouTube. The captions can also be translated. This obviously has incredible implications for the hearing-impaired and language translation. But it also has great implications for search.
Automatic captions will be generated using Google’s automated speech recognition (ASR) technology and the same voice recognition algorithms used in Google Voice.
Additionally, auto-timing is being introduced. If you provide all the words in the video, Google will automatically time the captioning for you.
Of course, having what essentially amounts to transcripts for online video means that the text can be crawled and indexed and then yes – SEARCHED. Bring on the keyword research and seo scriptwriting for online videos!
Recently, MSN unveiled its new homepage, which relies on structured data from Bing. Now, the MSN/Bing integration intensifies with a re-vamping of Bing’s video search. Bing has updated its video search to incorporate high-quality MSN content. With the update, you’ll be able to access videos from Hulu, MSN, ABC, and Youtube directly from Bing’s video search page.
The update is rolling out and should be complete in the next week or so. Right now, I’m able to access a preview at bing.com/videos/browse or by clicking “Videos” on the homepage.
Here’s a screenshot of the new Bing Video (click to enlarge):
It’s no secret that music searches comprise a large number of searches on the web today. That’s why the music search wars have heated up in recent weeks with rumors and announcements surrounding efforts by Google, Facebook, and MySpace.
Yahoo! has been a player in music search for a long time, but now they’re amping up their game with music video search. They’re including a special section on the left sidebar to help you filter results.
Last month, Yahoo! tested a new search that featured 3 columns and updated search results. Now, they’re rolling out the new web search to all users in the U.S., U.K., France, Spain, Mexico, and India. Image and video search results are being revamped as part of the update as well.
Within the three column look, the left hand side features search filters including the ability to refine by sites such as Wikipedia and Twitter.
There’s also Search Pad, which allows easy note-taking for searches you’re conducting. Search Pad will track sites you’ve visited, but you can also type your own notes into the tool.
It’s easy to think of online video as an social media method, but they’re increasingly having search value. After all, most videos don’t go viral, but they are still useful for the niches that you’ve created them for. That’s where search comes into play.
Google is offering up help for getting your videos better indexed. The Google Webmaster Central has announced support for Facebook Share and Yahoo! SearchMonkey RDFa for video indexing. These formats offer up information about videos, such as title and description, in the HTML for a video page.
