A great post from Jon Garfunkel over at Mediashift following the posting of the recent 1994 Dick Cheney video, and why finding old news footage is so difficult.

Google really only indexes YouTube and Google videos, nobody else.

“We’ve come to expect Google web search to be agnostic, not explicitly favoring content from any hosts,” said Mary Hodder, CEO of Dabble , a startup that now focuses on video search. “But Google video search appears to be favored to their own hosted videos.”

There is a lack of good search resources

As for finding other valuable archival video clips, many online journalists are unaware of where to look for important news footage online. While text search and cut-and-paste of text is pretty straightforward to anyone using the Internet, the same work in video takes considerably more time. Most journalists would rather spend their time honing their argument instead of trying to locate and edit a video.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could easily confront any politician with their own words / promises / lies ?

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