Video searching getting better

It looks like searching for video on the internet is likely to get a lot easier with the news that an American company called Veveo is about to launch a slick mobile video search engine called ‘vTap’.

According to Veveo, they’ve indexed more than 100,000 video web sites on the Internet. All you do is tap in the first few letters of a search and the technology will bring up a shortlist of relevant videos which are there for you to watch instantly.

Veveo say they’ve been working on this system in secret for the past two years and that the service will be available for phones running Windows Mobile from September 10th.

A couple of mobile search services are already available, of course, but they can be a bit clunky and limited. 4INFO’s mobile search focuses on sports, news, weather, business, travel and local information.

Another US service called MyWaves, asks you to set up on your computer the videos you want to watch ahead of when you want to see them on your phone.

The new vTap claims to let subscribers search intuitively without planning ahead. I wish them well because this really sounds like quite a big step forward.