I was watching the Ellen Degeneres Show on TV and then I went to work and read the assignment for this post and thought about searching for a video from the Let's Dance portion of her show that day. I used Blinkx and Truveo to try and find it but ended up going straight to Ellen's website, searched for it there and found it. Even after I had the name of the particular clip I couldn't find it using Blinkx but it came right up with Truveo. When I typed in Ellen Degeneres Show February 4 I got 4 results from Truveo whereas I got 47,000 results with Blinkx and in this case Truveo did not list the particular clip I was looking for, though it's from the show on February 4th. I don't know if is was among the 47,000 clips on Blinkx but then I wasn't going to look through that many. Suffice it to say it wasn't on the first page of results. If I were looking for a particular video I might not use a video search engine to find it and would probably go to a different, more direct source. However if your just browsing I'd use Truveo, Blinkx, YouTube or Hulu.I've not only explored HCPL’s YouTube channel, I've uploaded videos to it. When I was at the Fairbanks branch I made some video (using the branch camera) of a Guitar Hero event we had at the branch during Teen Tech Week. If you want to check these out go to our channel and look for FB Celebrating Teen Tech Week.
Video from The Ellen Degeneres Show
Image credit: http://www.medgear.org/entry/save-your-child-from-dvds-overuse/
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