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What are the best video search engines?
i need the best video sites,best video search engines that u would find everything in it EVERYTHING

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This thread shows the common confusion between a video host and a video index. asked for a single source that finds “everything,” but video content is fragmented: different hosts, private/paywalled streams, geo-restrictions, removed uploads, and files published in different formats. correctly drew the hosting-vs-search distinction, and the split explains why no single service will reliably return every clip.

A practical, repeatable workflow that combines breadth and depth (echoing the aggregator vs host trade-off mentioned by and ) works best:

  1. run a broad aggregator/federated search to surface cross-host matches;
  2. when promising leads appear, search the host’s native index for deeper metadata;
  3. check archives and niche verticals for older or removed content.
    Example search pattern (replace placeholders with real terms/hosts):
"exact phrase from clip" intitle:keyphrase (filetype:mp4 OR filetype:webm) site:HOST_DOMAIN

Advanced techniques and troubleshooting: search captions/transcripts (look for .srt/.vtt text), try variant spellings and quoted phrases, narrow by upload date, and capture a clear frame for reverse-image/frame searches to find reposts. If a clip is missing, seek transcripts, reposted mirrors, or archived caches. Setting RSS/email alerts for exact-title matches helps track new uploads.

Cautions and closing notes: several posters (, , ) favoured convenience of single-host searching — that is fine for many uses, but it limits coverage. Respect copyright and terms of service when downloading or scraping. For exhaustive searches, combine multiple tools, log successful query patterns, and expect diminishing returns when chasing truly “everything.”

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Member Avatar for jay 11

What are the best video search engines?
i need the best video sites,best video search engines that u would find everything in it EVERYTHING

YouTube? MetaCafe? MySpace? They all have loads of videos

Member Avatar for red_gal_2005

I guess when the vedios are conerned, most of people go with the YouTube!

Member Avatar for sck4784

For me is best video search engine.

Member Avatar for max4999

i have beusing all the major tubes but i think the best and most content is available on Youtube only!

Member Avatar for sck4784

youtube is not video search engine, it is a video hosting sites. Youtube shows only their own videos, not from other video other sites, however search engine extract videos from various video hosting sites.

i have beusing all the major tubes but i think the best and most content is available on Youtube only!

Member Avatar for Dani

I'm not really sure what a video search engine is?

Member Avatar for sck4784

Video search engine means which search only videos.

Member Avatar for redesignunit

Youtube is best for it

Member Avatar for MktgRob

Video search engine means which search only videos.

I think what CSCGal was questioning was the existence of such an animal. To my knowledge, beyond YouTube, Vimeo and and the ability to seach videos only in the big 3 SE's, I have never heard of a video-only search engine.

Member Avatar for MartinKearns

No one has mentioned Blinkx ? It is a video search engine (and a dam fine one too!)

Arrive at Blinkx via Google - enter your search terms and Blinkx will harvest search results from all of the usual suspects (and more) - YT, Vimeo, MetaCafe, Daily Motion, MSN Video, and on and on.

With blinkx, you will never need any other video search facility. (sorry if this sounds like advertising copy, but I have not yet given up the day job!)

Blinkx!

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No one has mentioned Blinkx ? It is a video search engine (and a dam fine one too!)

Arrive at Blinkx via Google - enter your search terms and Blinkx will harvest search results from all of the usual suspects (and more) - YT, Vimeo, MetaCafe, Daily Motion, MSN Video, and on and on.

With blinkx, you will never need any other video search facility. (sorry if this sounds like advertising copy, but I have not yet given up the day job!)

Blinkx!

Never heard of it but will check it out. Thanks.

Member Avatar for surindersharma

I suggest you you tube is the best

Member Avatar for MartinKearns

I suggest you you tube is the best

As has been pointed out elsewhere in this thread, YouTube is NOT a search engine; it is a video hosting resource with an integrated search facility allowing users to search for videos ON YouTube.

On the other hand blinkx is a specialised search engine; submit your search term there and it will return results from YouTube, GoogleVideo, MetaCafe, MSN Video, DailyMotion and dozens of other video hosting sites.

Blinkx presents an opportunity to view videos from all of the major (and many of the smaller) video hosting sites in one window. Try it - you might be surprised at just how good it is.

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Member Avatar for chandi786

first youtube and then metacafe both are really very good.

Member Avatar for Flower

I think youtube is best search engine to find videos and it is very popular among net users.

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