GoFish Launches Web Media Search

The folks at GoFish have launched a new search engine designed to find all kinds of media from all over the Internet. It's called SearchWebMedia, available at http://www.searchwebmedia.com/index.html .

The front page contains popular searches you can do or just strike out on your own. You can use all kinds of words besides artist names, but I found general ones worked better. I also found that phrase searching didn't seem to be supported -- searching for "mass choir" with quotes found plenty of songs with both the word mass and choir.

I did a search for baseball. Results are divided into audio, video, mobile, and games. The Audio has subcategories including albums, tracks, audiobooks, and podcasts. Click on the category and you'll get a list of results from that category. Underneath the multimedia results are results from Google.

Some results will take you to detail pages where the media can be downloaded or purchased. The videos will take you to a popup window where you can view the video. Imagine my surprise when I went to view the "Baseball Karate" video (which was a teeny box in a big window) and got an EPT commercial instead. Eventually I got the baseball karate video.

It would be nice to see a little more delineation between the free and the paid content. The Google results feel a little superfluous. And I couldn't get this search engine to work in Opera -- but it was fine in Firefox.

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