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Since you are getting so many results, be sure to take advantage of Yahoo
Video's Advanced Search. Here you can narrow your search results by the
length of the video (try limiting your results to videos that are over a minute
long), by the size of the video's play screen, by the ile type of the video, and
by the domain of the video (
Figure 8.9
).
Figure 8.9
Yahoo Video's
advanced Search page.
try limiting your video
searches by domain.
I can't imagine how anyone could use the ile type to speciically narrow search
results (other than just getting fewer of them), but experiment with the domain
restrictions. Searching in .org domains only, or .edu domains only, tends to
deliver fewer results, which themselves are more academically slanted.
Yahoo Video Search does not ofer RSS feeds; you have to use a page moni-
tor. You might ind with the number of results you get that it's better to do
several searches for your keywords—one restricted to each major domain—
and monitor each of the results pages.
Youtube
I don't know if YouTube was the irst online video site out there, but it's cer-
tainly the most popular video site and has helped spur the explosion in pop-
ularity of online video sites (youtube.com). YouTube hosts the videos that
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