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Collarity has been providing community-driven video search services for our customer websites (example: myfoxny.com and vmetv.com) for some time, but we haven’t had a public demonstration area on our website where publishers and users can come to try it out. Well, we’ve now fixed that.

We’ve recently added web video search capabilities to www.collarity.com. Now, when you come to our web site and begin to search for information, you will be given the option to search through millions of free, high quality web videos (music videos, news clips, movie trailers, viral videos, etc.) using the Collarity Compass.

It’s easy to try for yourself. Just go to the top of our homepage, or any other page on our site, and find the searchbox.

When you place your cursor in the searchbox, you will immediately see the ajax assets of the Collarity Compass appear.

• Index Choice: Make sure you’ve clicked on the “video” text above the searchbox, if you want to search for video content.
• Personalization Mode Choice: You can toggle between Global Mode (results filtered by all site users), Community Mode (results filtered by groups of people most highly associated with the keyword you type in the searchbox), or Personal Mode (for registered users, results you’ve clicked on in the past).

Now type the keyword phrase that describes what you’re interested in. Here’s a picture of what it looks like when the keyword “weather” is typed.

The Collarity Compass overlay is immediately populated with additional keyword suggestions and thumbnail video links, provided by communities of users on our site who have already searched for videos using the word “weather”. As you mouse-over each thumbnail, you can see additional information regarding your video choices. At this point, you can do one of three things:

• Click directly on a video thumbnail — a new browser window will open, giving you the opportunity to play the video you have selected.
• Modify your search with different keywords or different personalization modes. As you change the parameters, content within the Compass changes real-time.
• Hit the search button and you’ll be presented with a search results page containing a greater number of results.

Give our video search using the Collarity Compass a try. As always, we welcome your feedback. Please post comments here or send email to info@collarity.com. Thanks!