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Chicago, IL, May. 18 (UPI) -- New video search capabilities, created for broadband Internet users by firms from Google to Lycos, are starting to enable people to search and view select video clips of news, public affairs and entertainment programming from television. "Audio search exists already -- AltaVista, Lycos and AlltheWeb already have searchable audio files, MP3, WAV, Windows Media, Real, AIFF and others," said Lauren Hall, director of search engine marketing at Schipul, a Web marketing company. "(Now) you can search for video too."

SEARCH ENGINE giant Google has a added a test video search facility. Reuters said the facility will allow searches on Fox, ABC, PBS and others.It quotes co-founder Larry Page as saying that it will search thousands of TV programmes. Yahoo introduced a test service for video at the end of last year. µ

Ever want to find snippets of video on the Internet, but don't know where to look? Here are two new search services that'll help you out. This one is from Yahoo. But the really cool one, IMHO, is from a little-known outfit called Blinkx. Try them both and see what you think.