Making Music Video search much more fun.
If you have tooled around any video site looking for rock videos of your favorite band, then you know you will get a mix of rock videos form your band, some kid air guitaring to the music, or stuff that is tagged with the bands name but has something to do with sock puppets or cute cats.
Search engine watch points out a review of video search tools right here and explains it as:
There is a nice round-up of the burgeoning music video search tool universe by Josh Lowensohn in Webware. Three tools are reviewed: MusicTonic, Middio and iLike. Overall these music video search tools rely on scraping YouTube and Google videos and repackaging the results with their own interfaces. By pre-filtering the input to include videos from specific content provider channels, they are able to give improved results. The UI of each of these sites has different features and functionality. Source: Search Engine Watch
Depending on what you are looking for, and what your patience, spending ability, and eventual results are going to be is anyone’s best guess. But, the problem with video is just that, you want Band A and you get up with Kid playing air guitar to Band A. These can be amusing at times, mind you very amusing, so any tool that helps you really find band A rather than Kid A pretending to be band A is generally a good thing.
We have not scoped out the tools yet so we do not know how good, bad, or ugly that they are, that is going to be a personal preference depending on what you want as an interface so check out the Webware article, download the tools, play around a bit and find an interface that works best for you.
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