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Launch of MetaMojo.com Video Search v. 0.1

Here is the link:

http://www.metamojo.com/video.php 

The concept is pretty simple: it’s a meta search of other video search engines we like.  It also features some of the video sites we work with, a way of returning the favor for them featuring our clips from WatchMojo.com. 

We believe there is a fundemantal difference between text-based content meta search and video-based content meta search.  Essentially, with the former, a user clicks on a result from an underlying search engine and bypasses the monetization state for the search engine by going straight to the website being indexed.  With video meta search, since these are hosted on Google, YouTube, etc., we send traffic to the underlying search engines - where they can monetize the traffic as they wish. 

We’re very bullish on online video, and being a producer of original video content alone does not cut it, in my eyes.  So we also thought of creating a video search engine cause our visitors are in a video watching mindset, so why not give them the best of online video as well outside of WatchMojo.com?

It’s in the same spirit of our domain specific vertical search engine MetaMojo.com which returns best of breed results for each category.  On MetaMojo.com (the regular, non video search engine), for music, you get results from Rolling Stone magazine, Billboard, Blender, etc.  So on this video search, you get results from video engines we like.  We currently index 10, but we will add more soon.  We also have some bells and whistles for functionality that will come soon.

If you would like to partner up with us and submit your video index / database, email me at ash[@]mojosupreme.com.  We’re going to automate the process very shortly, but we’d like some feedback first.  Naturally, video search is in its infancy, and we think there are numerous approaches, all worthwhile.

Oh, you might enjoy the layout.  The concept is you are walking on the street and you see a window display of a bunch of TVs… hence the “matrix layout.”  Give it a try you will know what I mean.  The layout is extremely barebones now… hence 0.1.

You can also choose if you want to lump results from one source, or “interleave” them (not a term I coined or like, frankly) which rotates one result from each source… it’s to avoid having people have to scroll down pages and pages of content, we fully expect other search engines to follow this (and it’s possible someone does something similar, since it’s not rocket science and we wonder why no one has done it yet).

Pretty soon we’re going to feature this across our network of hundreds of thousands of unique users on WatchMojo.com, the entire blog network and of course, the MetaMojo.com domain specific vertical search engine.

Enough yapping, enjoy.  Send me feedback, questions, suggestions.

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Posted By: Ashkan Karbasfrooshan | Dec 14th

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