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Another search engine is brought into the internet. This time it's different. This is a unique video search engine, ScienceHack which indexes all the videos related to science. Currently, it indexes the fields of science related to Physics, Chemistry, Space. They are currently working to include Geology, Psychology, Robotics and Computer videos and may be coming soon.

A team of scientists screens the video and approves to be included in their index based on accuracy and quality. Their site is designed using PHP and MySql. This search engine doesn't host videos, they just index the videos from popular video sites like YouTube and MetaCafe. You can also help them by submitting videos to their database.

Affirming the tremendous significance of video on the internet, and the stupendous skyrocketing success of Youtube's offering, Google acquired Youtube for a all stock deal of $1.65 billion.

Youtube hosts over 100 million videos with nearly 2500+ videos uploaded every hour , or close to one every second. Youtube has over 20 million unique visitors a day.

We will wait and watch how this impacts the future of Google, when almost 70% of all acquisitions don't bring much success.

Zidane - A new way to solve problems

Eh, here is a video lest you see and adopt - Be careful coz its the zizou way to go!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js0vOgjBfD8

You Tube has been lately showing great videos and you can embed the code in your websites too. Login to be a member. If you like Baywatch hero David Hasselhoff, he the one who had the series of Knight Riders too, has his video of a song 'Jump into my Car' at You Tube. Enjoy!

Anand Chhatpar, CEO of BrainReactions, shares his story of creating a successful business around ideas and brainstorming to CNBC India.

Click here to view Anand's interview

Barcamp was recently organized in Chennai by Narain,Kiruba Shankar and Vijay Anand, the theme was Web 2.0 and Next Generation Internet. Narain gave a useful presentation on What/Where/Why of Web 2.0? and also gave a demo of his innovative design collaboration tool, Tracbac.

Michael Eisenberg of Benchmark Capital, writes on
Portal Wars: Google, Yahoo and APPLE!

Google, Yahoo and MSN continue to duke it out in search. Yahoo and Google are putting intense efforts to role out video and other multimedia search properties. Yahoo has invested heavily in a southern California operation to bolster its media efforts and Google Video plows ahead.

However, in my view, the real horse to watch is Apple. Yes, Apple, maker of the Ipod. Apple completely groks the new genres of media and how today's consumers want to buy and enjoy media. They were the first to understand that if you unbundle music from the album/CD format and make it easy to purchase, users would buy and not steal. They then took it one step further and added podcasts, yet another modern genre of audio entertainment.