uLinkx video search catches up; adds new features

By Vivek | May 31st, 2007 at 05:49 am ET         

Video Search Engine uLinkx, which aggregates videos from Youtube, Google videos, MySpace, Metacafe, Reuters and likes to make you content discovery easier, has been growing rapidly in the past few months and is now claiming to be clocking 2.5M pageviews/month. Not a big number as compared to the biggies in the space, yet the consistent upward curve at Alexa et al looks promising. This number would definitely get a boost when uLinkx launches it’s API sometime soon, enabling reuse of the aggregator data.

While API still has time to come out, uLinkx released a bunch of new features today including a customizable All In One Video page feature provides access to popular videos from many video sharing web sites, like Youtube, Google videos, MySpace, Metacafe, Reuters, Yahoo, Revver, Grouper, iFilm,Dailymotion and many more sites on a single page. So if you are a video junkie and want to avoid going to 10 different sites for the popular refresh, uLinkx would be a good place to be. Other features include users being able select popular videos based on timeline ( Today, Week,Month and All Time ), search based on date besides relevance, family filter, and user being able to import their YouTube videos. Lot of catching up stuff out there, but still good to have those features.

While the UI and features are great, a big change I would like to see at uLinkx would be in the search mechanism where it starts looking beyond the video metadata to power it’s search results. Right now uLinkx looks mainly at title, descriptions and tags for videos, but the ability of being able to analyze video and audio streams is already upon us. It’s better to work in that direction now before that space also gets crowded.

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