October 2005
Intermediate to advanced
489 pages
12h 2m
English
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The Yahoo! Video Search can help you find video clips that have been posted to the Web.
As Yahoo! Search scours the Web, it indexes not only the documents, text, and images it finds, but also video clips. Video files don’t show up in a standard Yahoo! Web Search, but you can visit the Yahoo! Video Search to find clips from every corner of the Web.
Simple Video Searching
To start finding videos, browse to http://video.yahoo.com (or type video search! into any Yahoo! Search form), enter a word or phrase, and click Search Video. Say you’re interested in learning more about NASA’s robotic vehicle for exploring Mars and you’d like to see the rover in action. You can find thumbnails of videos from across the Web by searching with the phrase mars rover, as shown in Figure 1-30.
Figure 1-30. Results of a Video Search for “mars rover”
Among the hundreds of results are clips from professional television news stories about the Mars rover, clips from NASA itself with video from the Mars rover, and amateur videos about the Mars rover. Yahoo! displays a single frame from the video, the name of the file, the video’s dimensions, and the URL that contains a link to the video clip. To view a video, just click the thumbnail. The video will open from its original site within a Yahoo! frame, like the clip shown in Figure 1-31.
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