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Multimedia Search Tools & Search Engines: There are new
search tools that can search both audio and video information on the
web. Below are a few examples of Free tools and Fee tools ($).
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Name
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Video or Audio
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Description of Service
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Cost
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Yahoo Video Search
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both
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Allows you to search every word spoken during television news
broadcasts from the BBC, Sky News, and Bloomberg. - searches the
closed captions, click to view the full-motion video.
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free
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Google Video
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video
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Contents from stations, C-Span, Discovery...can be submitted ?
copyright violation. Unable to view full motion video on your
computer, thumbnails
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free
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Lycos Lycos Multimedia
Search
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both
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Search for picture, movie, sound, and streaming media files. Lets
you find pictures from licensed collections and from across the
web. Also provides options to search for audio & MP3 files, as
well as video clips.
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free
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Lycos Music: Downloads
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audio
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Search engine for music on the 'net in the popular MP3 file
format. Search by song title or artist or browse by category. Tips
on downloading, and playing MP3 files are also provided. Both free
and pay songs.
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Annodex
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both
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Open source video search technology. A Firefox plugin named
Annodex allows browsing through time-continuous media such as
audio and video in the same way that HTML allows browsing through
text.
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free
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Local
Station Videos from Feedroom
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video
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Local News from Feedroom.com - Video News from Local Stations
Throughout the Country Search Metadata and Descriptions , and RSS
Feeds (2 week index)
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free
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BlinkxTV
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audio & video
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Offers content from many television and radio broadcasters
(including the BBC) A very simple piece of software which you
download and install on your desktop.
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free
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SingingFish
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audio
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is a publicly available "focused" engine for streaming media
content
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free
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FindSounds.com
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audio
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Enables you to find a wide range of sounds on the Internet.(Some
categories are animals, birds, insects, musical instruments,
nature and people, television and movies, and vehicle sounds.)
Most sounds are quite short .
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free
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Mr.Sapo.com
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both
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Option to receive results from 24 different engines.Type in the
search term , click one of the search engine buttons results are
from that particular web site. Limit your searchers by images and
audio/video.
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free
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Streaming Audio & Video Sources:
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both
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Radiomat (Feeds
from All-News Stations Around the Country),
UK Parliament ,
Other Legislative Bodies ,
State Legislative Bodies, World Radio Network
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free
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Speechbot
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audio & video
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is a fee search engine for audio & video content that is hosted
and played from other websites. It uses speech recognition
technology to create a searchable transcript that you search by
entering keywords into the search box. It offers more than 15,000
hours of keyword searchable radio programming.
Includes
Podscope with Speech Recognition
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$ fee
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Shadow TV
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streaming video
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Shadow TV provides real-time keyword searchable access to
programming from numerous networks and local television stations.
Once material is found you can then immediately view the content
online using RealVideo.
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$ fee
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TVEyes.Com
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audio & video
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TVEyes makes Radio & TV searchable by keyword, phrase or topic -
just as you would use a search engine for text.
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$ fee
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FedNet
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audio & video
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Provides of Washington based, real-time and archival multimedia
information. In re-cap is
gives daily coverage of the U. S. Senate and House floor debates,
making them searchable within minutes after the words have been
spoken.
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$ fee
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Other fee based multimedia search tools are:
Critical Mention, StreamSage,
Nexidia.
Archived Media Content:
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Video or Audio
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Description of Service
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Cost
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Wayback Machine
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Both
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Multimedia from the Internet Archive. Search my moving images,
open source audio and others in pull down menu in search box.
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free
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Live Music
Archives
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Audio
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Live Music Archive currently contains:+ 20,141 Recorded Shows, +
Material from 856 Bands, + Approximately 300,000 tracks
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free
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National Public Radio Archive
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Audio
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Only Keyword search abstracts, limit by date/program and then
listen to individual segments or entire programs online. Material
for most NPR news programs back to 1996. Abstracts and links in
this database are only accessible via the NPR site.
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free
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BBC Online
- Archive of BBC Radio Interviews
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Audio
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Incredible content; listen online to segments (variable lengths)
from BBC Radio interviews. Browse by subject or use an A-Z list.
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free
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C-SPAN Search
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both
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Two Week Archive, Metadata , Also,
BookTV.org Archive (500 author interviews)
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free
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Television News Archive
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video
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Television News Archive @ Vanderbilt University. An extensive
archive of television news. It has over 30,000 individual network
evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast
networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of
special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since
1989.
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MIT Lectures
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video
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MIT World™ is a free and open site that provides on-demand video
of significant public events at MIT.
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ResearchChannel
Video Library
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video
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ResearchChannel is a consortium of research universities and
corporate research divisions give access to our individual and
collective activities, ideas, and opportunities in basic and
applied research. Include Video Library & Web Cast
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PBS Archives:
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both
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PBS site are several databases of archived video. Every word
spoken in these video segments can be searched by keyword. See
individual archive databases below:
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free
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Specialized Archived Media Content from PBS:
Public Broadcasting System (PBS) not only offers television programming
throughout the U.S. but also has a website that provides additional
resources for each program. Included on the PBS site are several
databases of archived video.
News:
PBS NewsHour Video Search Search Search segments of the program beginning
in February, 2002.
Washington Week Video Archive This archive dates back to July 21, 2000.
Science:
American Field Guide Keyword search (or browse), "the sights and
sounds from a wide variety of environments throughout America. We've
collected over 1400 video clips that enable you to experience America's
wilderness firsthand..."
Scientific American Frontiers Video Archive "Every episode of the series,
from 1990 to the present, is available for online viewing."
Nature Video Archives Search by keyword and/or program title.
Mathline From the site, This FREE professional development resource helps
teachers quickly and easily find standards-based Mathline video clips
and lesson plans on different mathematical topics and teaching
techniques for grades K-12.
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