From Wendy Boswell,
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If you're as much of a homemade video junkie as I am, then you've probably searched YouTube for those cute kitty vids, various viral videos, or even your favorite music video, movie trailer - there's just a ton of good stuff over there, for sure.

Now you can search YouTube even more effectively with Podzinger . Podzinger is unique in that it actually peeks inside the spoken words of the audio or video program itself to find what you're looking for - and brings back exactly where your search term shows up. Now, Podzinger has added YouTube searching capabilities to its home page, making it possible for you to search all of YouTube's videos for any one spoken word.

Now,sure, you can just use YouTube to search for a general topic. However, say you're the CEO of a company and you'd like to see if your name or your company's name is mentioned in any YouTube vids. This would be a good way to accomplish that.

I did a quick search on a few key words (hasselhoff, snoopy, cat) and Podzinger only brought back a few results - but these results are extremely targeted, and when they say that a word appears at a certain time in the video, they really mean it. I think that there's a lot of room for improvement here, but overall, it's an interesting development.

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