Archive for the 'Blinkx' Category

Popular Video Search Terms Related to Video Sites: YouTube, Veoh, Daily Motion, Blinkx, Revver, Joost, Blip.TV

Just as you have guessed: the top popular search terms related to online video are either to do with sex or with downloading, ripping, saving, etc.
But beyond these two major themes, there seems to be an emerging trend showing what various online communities, fan groups are frequenting specific video sites for - at least based […]

Blinkx and Usability

Blinkx has serious usability issues I think, which is a major obstacle to getting more eyeballs from the vast pool of online users. Especially at this point when Google is not really ahead of video search technology yet. Honestly, I only use Blinkx if I am very very desperate (or if I want to check […]

How will Google Video Search Improve? A Short History from Marissa Mayer

Let’s face it: neither Google Video search nor looking for good YouTube videos can satisfy you momentarily. You are interested in, let’s say ‘digital ghost mask’ (what else) and you get one single Robota trailer in YouTube. You could see one example if you hit the term ‘logitech orbit cam‘ but why would you do […]

Video Revenue Sharing Schemes: Google AdSense vs. Blinkx AdHoc

Play the video + ad, and get some share of the ad revenue

There have been recently two important market moves regarding (more or less) contextually targeted video ad revenue share schemes. One step taken by Google offering web site owners to have YouTube video boxes on the site and get money for advertisements running in […]