Whether people like it or not, user-generated-content is here and it's getting better. Consequently, video search has also arrived, it is also getting better, and is probably set to explode any time now. Of course, there is some way to go, but that doesn't mean that it will take very long to cover that ground.

While discussing the promise that smaller companies hold for video search solutions, Andy Beal over at Marketing Pilgrim suggests and interesting conspiracy theory. As Andy writes:

Could the reason that Google and Yahoo have poor video search capabilities, be a deliberate attempt to prevent copyright owners demanding it be used to remove their content?

Of course, the whole Google/YouTube v. Copyright Holders is a heavy topic, but there are suspicions that it has not so much to do with copyrights as it does with the mainstream media trying to stall user generated content from evolving to a point where it can compete with them. As Loren Feldman explains: