AltaVista Video Search had one of the first video search engines that offered easy accessible use. Is found on a direct link called “Video” off the main page above the text block.(Since 2 February 2009 this feature has not been available from Altavista.com)

Blinkx was launched in 2004 and uses voice recognition and visual examination to process spidered video rather than rely on metadata alone. blinkx puts its collection at around 26,000,000 hours of content and claims to have the largest archive of video on the web.

CastTV is a Web-wide video search engine that was founded in 2006 and funded by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Ron Conway, and Marc Andreessen.

Clipta is a deep crawling video search engine that indexes millions of videos from across the Internet. Clipta was founded and launched in 2008.

Dabble is a human powered video search engine indexing 29 million videos across hundreds of videos sites. Dabble launched in July, 2006. [Video search feature temporarily unavailable at Dabble.com]

Everyzing (formerly Podzinger until May, 2007) has spent $50 million building speech to text video search. Everyzing takes the user within the actual content by using speech recognition. This allows online video consumers to go directly to the point in the video for which they are searching.