Analysis of online video search and sharing

Martin J. Halvey; Mark T. Keane

doi:10.1145/1286240.1286301

Analysis of online video search and sharing

Martin J. Halvey, Mark T. Keane

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Abstract

It is now feasible to view video at home as easily as text-based pages were viewed when the Web first appeared. This development has led to the emergence of video search engines providing hosting, indexing and access to large, online video repositories. A key question in this new context is whether users search for media in the same way that they search for text. This paper presents a first step towards answering this question by providing novel analyses of people's linking and search behavior using a leading video search engine. Initial results show that page views in the video context deviate from the typical power-law relationships seen on the Web. However, more positively, there are clear indications that tagging and textual descriptions play a key role in making some video-pages more popular than others. This shows that many techniques based on text analysis could apply in the video context.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia
Publisher	ACM
Pages	217-226
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9781595938206
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1286240.1286301
Publication status	Published - 10 Sep 2007

Keywords

video search engines
hypertext
hypermedia
text anaysis
search behaviour

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