Video search engines:

The brand-name search engines:

The specialized video search tools:

  • Blinkx A bright, fun way to search for TV and video, plus hunt through the exploding number of podcasts. You can also download a desktop version.
  • SingingFish Specialized tool that will help you find pictures and video. It also has a good advanced search tool that allows you to narrow your search to news and select the type of video and audio formats.
  • TV Eyes    Pay-for service hunts for the keywords you want in US, UK, Canadian and Australian TV programs.
  • TV Guide's Online Video Guide This search engine focuses just on professionally produced video content, so you don't get the usual YouTube irrelevancies. Plenty of entertainment of course but also news clips, documentaries and other footage from the major American networks.

Searching YouTube and similar sites:

Youtube and similar sites:

  • YouTube
  • Liveleak In the wake of the US military's crackdown on blogs and YouTube videos produced by armed forces personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan, Liveleak keeps up a steady supply of raw footage -- from military people, insurgents, you name it. For other ways to search blogs, see JNet's blog search page

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