Online Video

Before this lecture I had not heard of any online video websites such as Dailymotion or Veoh other then YouTube. The two sites which I am going to compare are YouTube and Dailymotion. I firstly ran a search on the video site which I was most familiar with, YouTube. I put in the name of a band and the particular song I was looking for, this was Sugababes: About a Girl. I then clicked on the search button and immediately I got 775 results for this particular search. These search results could then be sorted by their relevance for example, newest,oldest, rating or when they were uploaded, today, this week, this month. I then went to Dailmotion to do the same search. Like before I entered the name of the band and the song I was looking for into the search bar and clicked on search. I was presented with 36 results for this search. Like with YouTube my search results could be sorted by relevance, most viewed, most rated, but I could not group then in relation to how recently each video was uploaded. A brief description of what each video was about was given on both sites as well as a rating and the time length of each video. I found both sites very similar and straight forward to use. After "sampling" both sites I preferred YouTube for two main reason, (1) I was provided with a greater number of search results which ment more variety and (2) I was given more options of how I could narrow down my search results so as to make it easier to find the specific video.