Among the wide range of videos on Blinkx, there were two which I found interesting. Wild Films India.co had produced a travel video "Chatt Puja in India", a very colourful account of a trip in India. WSMV4 News produced a video entitled "What is your dream vacation" in which people were interviewed about what they saw as their dream holidays.
Google and Blinkx used similar topic headings and methods of searching but the front page of Blinkx was much more exciting than that of Google, because it showed several thumbnails of the videos side by side rather than listing them one underneath the other with the remainder of the page blank.
The Time magazine website brought up by the Google search was mind boggling with so many topics to search. The search box was useful and I did a search for tennis which brought up the latest results of tennis matches around the world. The side panel offered extra related topics like "game" and "tournaments" and "women" . Covers of each edition were displayed with hypertext allowing the viewer to see the contents in full text. The cover with Venus Williams, tennis player, appeared first. Wonderful!! Useful for school assignments, for patrons wanting information about past events.
Specialist Search Engines
I compared the images section of Bing, Yahoo, Exalead. The differences between them are-
Bing has related topics which can be searched. Includes sketches, cartoons.
Yahoo has the filter which selects images with permission from the creator to be reused
The images in Exalead are not as sharp as any of the other sites. the choice of landscape or portrait is given.
The Yahoo filter selecting reusable images is particularly useful for people wanting to use graphics to illustrate works for use in the public arena. All other images can be used for illustrations for private use only.
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