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Monitoring Videos
Videos online have been sputtering along for the last several years, but it
hasn't been until more people had broadband Internet access that online
video content really took of. Nowadays, you can do everything from watch a
news broadcast to watch kids play the Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) video
game. It all depends on where you look and what you want to monitor.
Google Video
Google Video (video.google.com) is a little odd in that it's a combination
of a video store and a repository for things people upload, as well as a place
where institutions partnering with Google can park their videos. Materials
might range from a lecture on physics to a cat beating up a hammer (no kid-
ding!). Start with general searches and try to use more academic language.
If you do a search for glaucoma, for example, you get stock footage, news
stories, interviews, and even advertisements in Russian. While it's a variety
of results, at this writing it returned only 29—which you may feel is enough
to comfortably monitor.
Try using Google Video's advanced search options, which include the abil-
ity to ind only short, medium, or long videos, and to ind only videos that
are free. Don't forget to sort your results by date! hat option is also avail-
able from the Advanced Video Search page ( Figure 8.6 ).
Figure 8.6
google Video's 
advanced Video Search 
page lets you sort 
results by date. 
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