AT&T Launches its Own Video Search Engine, VideoCrawler

AT&T has just a launched a new video search engine called – video crawler. Although it is not quite clear as to why AT&T is venturing into a video search engine, VideoCrawler which was created in cooperation with startup Divvio, is a pretty sleek and robust search engine catering to the video-hungry users like us.

AT&T’s VideoCrawler allows you to easily search, view, listen, collect, share, rate and comment on videos that you’ve stumbled upon using the video search engine. VideoCrawler scours through the web’s rich resources of Video, Audio, Internet Radio, Internet TV, Internet Games and even ring tones.

Unline other video search engine which practically serve as your Google for video and other multimedia contents, VideoCrawler extends its service further by accepting site recommendations and suggestions for inclusion to its list of sites that it indexes and crawls regularly when users type into its search engine.

You can also sign up to create your own account and start creating your catalog of multimedia contents. You can then share your media collection for others to search and view.

VideoCrawler currently indexes video sites such as Hulu, blip.tv, MySpace Video, Google Video and of course YouTube as well as multimedia content from online newspapers and personal web sites.

One good feature of VideoCrawler highlighted by Read and Write Web is VideoCrawler’s ability to limit your search results into the various categories of multimedia content it indexes. This is a pretty useful feature for a video search engine such as VideoCrawler and definitely adds to its relevance.

Still the question is, why AT&T has launched a video search engine? We’re guessing that this will soon be a part of AT&T’s mobile internet services. But in the meantime, take a spin at VideoCrawler and see how it effective its search results are to what you are actually looking for when you type in your search query.

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