Google has been indexing videos from other video hosting sites for quite a while now, but most videos are from larger video sites like Metacafe, Crackle, and sometimes mixed with Break and AOL Uncut, neglecting smaller video hosting services and independent video publishers that refuse to use those services (because of the low quality video encoding).

It’s now possible to have your videos on Google Video Search with the new Google Video Sitemaps that the Google Webmaster

Tools just introduced. All you need to do is create a video sitemap and submit it to Google (it would be pretty easy whether you have them organized, particularly in a database). Google crawls a variety formats of videos, from MPEG to WMV to RM to FLV. There are some restrictions on the sitemaps and videos though, you can find them here.

Some competitions there for Blinkx and Truveo.

Original post by Haochi