2010-06-24, 07:10
kreach Wrote:Biggest concern is that we spend a lot of effort into this for Hulu to just make one change and render everything useless, especially the log-in features. However, search could probably be done through a third-party search engine like Bing.
Just out of curiosity why do you suggest a third party search?
The search method on the site seems pretty robust. I have been looking at advanced search and it has a lot of interesting parameters.
I found it most interesting that it returns results from other video hosting pages. I am looking into how this is done via video site maps that those providers submit to hulu. This is copied from the google video site maps. These can be crazy useful for building plug-ins for other streaming sites because you don't have to scrape the sites html to get a complete list of videos on the site. I know this is off topic but I thought it might be interesting to developers. I have been hunting and found a couple maps that seem to be updated regularly.
info on google video site maps.
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters...swer=80472
Anyone interested in collaborating on this? I am not good at that just ask rwparris2 or jonm42. =P
If not and no one else has input then I will just do what I want.