The three major search engines — Yahoo, MSN, and Google — recognize video as an evolving and increasingly popular phenomenon on the web.
But what have these three beasty corporations done to secure their stake in the online video market?
Read on…
Yahoo and Video
In May 2005 Yahoo launched its video search engine which also integrated video sharing allowing users to upload their own videos.
Although often forgotten about, Yahoo is actually a leading video website that rivals YouTube and MySpace .
It September 2006 Yahoo acquired the video sharing website JumpCut .
It has a large number music videos available on LaunchCast.
It has a large number of videos in its news section.
Yahoo offers regular TV listings which are linked to relevant online videos.
Microsoft and Video
MSN previously arranged a licensing deal with Blinkx to help provide results in its video search.
Microsoft launched the video sharing...
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