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 |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| Pages | 217-226 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781595938206 |
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| Publication status | Published - 10 Sep 2007 |
Keywords
- video search engines
- hypertext
- hypermedia
- text anaysis
- search behaviour