Partners with some of the biggest names in the media industry for audio and video content.

After a beta launch in December 2004, Yahoo! today announced the general availability of its Video Search service, featuring new content from partners including Buena Vista Pictures, CBS News, CMT, Discovery Communications, MTV, Reuters, VH1 and more.

Yahoo! Video Search offers video search online through its next generation media crawling and ranking technology. Yahoo's key content and media relationships, and Media Really Simple Syndication (Media RSS) a self-publishing specification enables publishers to promote audio and video content. This enables consumers to find and view any type of online video from news footage to movie trailers to television clips as well as independently produced video.

Yahoo! Video Search also provides users with integrated access to video content from the Yahoo! network by including movie trailers from Yahoo! Movies, music videos from Yahoo! Music.

"Yahoo! Video Search provides consumers with a comprehensive source for video on the Web," said John Thrall, head of media search engineering, Yahoo! Search. "Our powerful media crawling, extraction, and ranking technology as well as our broad relationships with content partners enable Yahoo! Video Search to provide users with the leading online video search experience."