Librarian in Black Blog – Sarah Houghton-Jan

When searching for video, come on librarians…go beyond YouTube!  Try VideoSurf, a metasearch for video that looks at videos on Hulu, CNN, ESPN, Comedy Central, and MetaCafe.  It’s got a nice suggest-as-you-type feature, and the search results are quite good.  Here is a sample search results page for a search for the recent FX show, “Sons of Anarchy.“  The site offers great sorting options, “quick refining,” faceted searching, results embedding, permalinks, a Save Search/Alert feature, and a lot more.  They offer a Firefox extension, APIs, and more tools too.

I liked the user interface (I don’t say that often).  I also liked that full episodes or feature films were marked as such for quick finding.  No complaints whatsoever about VideoSurf from me, though I do hope they add more sources in the coming months, as more in this case can only be better