As we head into hunting season, we recognize it’s sometimes difficult for us to find good videos online. Just as wild game outsmarts an outdoorsman, we sometimes find ourselves on a challenging video hunt. With our interests as diverse as our personalities, we each have our favorite genre of video to unwind with. It’s a vast online world out there and it can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. Whether looking for a missed TV show, music video, how-to tutorial, viral video or that elusive full length movie, with all the variety of online video search engines, is there an easier way to find videos? An ideal video search engine will help find the videos that matter to you.
There are a ton of video search engines to help us find our video. Clearly identifying your keyword search for the type of video your hunting is essential. Let’s entertain the idea that you are trying to figure out the psyche of the crazy cat coworker in the cubicle next to you, who you can overhear giggling up a storm over feline video fiascos. You’ve finally got some time to kill and want to find out what this funny cat video craze is all about.
The Internet is a vast video wasteland of sometimes poor quality videos, so where should you look for good quality funny cat videos? We need the right weapon, but what video search engine is right for this hunt?
Your initial impulse might be to do a typical Google search for “funny cat videos.” Instead of sifting through “funny cat” non-video content results, try using the domain video.google.com It works the same. Enter “funny cat videos” in the search box. Bam! Now there results are only video content and you can start sorting through, about 51,900,000 results of “funny cat videos.” Have fun with that. You’ve stumbled on months and possible years’ worth of crazy cat entertainment.
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Once you finally find videos online that you want to save and watch again, use RealPlayer to download a copy to your computer. Simply hover your mouse over the top right corner of the video screen and click Download This Video. |
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Another common direction might be heading straight to the most popular video source YouTube www.youtube.com/ and see where typing “funny cat” in the search field gets you. About 752,000 funny cat videos to explore, that’s a little more manageable, right? YouTube has the option to sort by upload date, view count, and the video rating to help narrow down your search results. Try adding new key words like “funny cat compilations,” “funny cat fails,” “…fights,” “…jumps” and “…videos with sound effects.” That seems easy enough, adding more details to the hunt to get better results.
Google video search and YouTube do a great job at delivering a wealth of video results, but there are also a number of other sites that you can use to find online videos. We’ve rounded up a small representation of additional video search engines to explore. Some things to consider when weighing the quality of your search engine experience might be the design, size of index results, their rankings for various searches, advanced filtering, suggested searches and a recent search history archive.
Try searching for online videos using detailed keywords as described above. You can decide which one works best for your individual search needs. A few might be perfect for TV shows and movies, some ideal for sharing videos on your social profiles, while others are better suited for searching mobile video sites while on your phone. Check out our the sites that made it on our video search engine list:
Now that you’ve explored the wide range of video search engines out there, got a finicky taste of funny cat hysteria or finally found that rare video you’ve been looking for, why not download it to your video library? Think of it as your treasure chest to keep all your search rewards in and have fun building your online video library. You can download a free version of RealPlayer downloader by clicking the orange button in the top right corner of this page. You can use it to download online videos and save them to your RealPlayer library and watch your favorite videos over and over again. If the video you’ve found isn’t in the MP4 format, it can be converted, and we can help you learn how to choose an MP4 converter.
We all might find our favorite “funny cat videos” through a different video search engine, but you’ll perfect your video search technique for finding your own specific genre of video in time. Whether or not you find video search engines, besides Google and YouTube searches, necessary to find the type of video you seek, enjoy the reward of your find. Savor the hunt.
Did we miss any video search engines? How do you find your videos online? Is there a better engine out there to deliver video results in your genre that we didn’t mention? Share your opinion on the best online video search directory by commenting below.
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You can also search videos using http://findthatfile.com or its sub-site http://findthatvideo.com
It only search downloadable files but finds them from all over the web, ftp, usenet, emule and more.
I really appreciate this post. I have been looking everywhere for this!
Thank goodness I found it on Bing. You’ve made my day! Thanks again
I hardly comment, however after browsing a few of the comments here Exploring Video Search
Engines — RealPlayer. I do have a couple of questions for you if you do not
mind. Could it be simply me or do a few of these responses look as if they are written by brain dead folks?
😛 And, if you are posting at additional places, I’d like to follow you. Would you post a list of every one of all your social networking pages like your twitter feed, Facebook page or linkedin profile?