Can I create a custom [video] search engine?

Question

I tried to use google custom Search Engine (cse) to search in a specific video sharing websites (like: youtube, Y! video, ... etc). The idea is that a user enters a keyword. then, the results are fetched from those predefined websites. Is it possible to do that? Or those kind of video sharing websites prevent queries from outside?

Answer 1

That is what Google Custom Search is for.

1. Create your search engine.

2. Set your sites to:

   *.youtube.com/*

   video.yahoo.com/*

3. That's it.

I just did exactly this and it works fine - here is my test search.

Answer 2

Well, you can check the google custom video search engine at http://www.besttubesites.tk which searches videos among top 25 tube sites based on rankings at ranking.com