Today Best Tech Videos team released new search engine on the site. Now our search results became much better and we hope our users would love this new improvement.

Stay tuned! This week we’re going to release an advanced search functionality which would make searches even more powerful.

Our site has been added to one of eContent / eLearning Google Search Engines created by Richard Hoeg to index lots of useful engineering knowledge sources by Google Co-Op.
For those of you who is not familiar with this new Google service, Richard created short tutorial screencast. Along with this screencast you could find some other screencasts on Richard’s site:

• CamStudio Tutorial
  (create your own web demos using CamStudio, a free software tool)
• Drivetime Podcasts
  (listen to podcasts in your car w/o a MP3 player or iPod)
• Google Alert
  (create custom RSS feeds using Google Alert)
• Google Blog Search
  (create custom RSS feeds using Google Blog Search)
• Google Book Search
  (create custom eBooks using Google Book Search)
• Great News RSS Feed Reader
  (learn how to install, configure and use the RSS feed reader, Great News)
• Honeywell Shanghai Learning Center
  (take a trip to the grand opening of Honeywell’s Shanghai Learning Center)

Thanks Richard for such useful resource and for adding BTV to your search index.

Many people asked along last few days about my plans related to further BTV development, new features, bugs fixing, etc, etc… So, I decided to summarize all my thoughts about how to develop BTV and what we should do with it now. If you have some suggestions or ideas not mentioned below, do not hesitate to post them here in comments or send them to me by e-mail or IMs.

So, here are my thoughts (not ordered):

• New design (light, pastel colors, logo, SE-optimized layout)
• Video embedding option
  • Ask authors about embedding to prevent copyright complaints.
  • Two options: Embedding remote videos or recoding and playing from BTV.
• Many authors for site
  • Pre/Post moderation
  • Aggregation of content from RSS feeds and/or from ripping modules
  • Hosting of screencasts video
    • What resolution?
    • What format?
    • For free or only for premium users?
    • Embedded ads?
• RSS
  • Feeds for each category (already there)
  • Feeds for each tag and set of tags (like php+mysql)

Thats it. If you have any suggestions, please leave comments here or drop me a line. Thanks all my readers for attention.

We’ve got semi-automatic Google TechTalks ripping system. So, stay tuned - next few days I’ll post lots of awesome videos from this great resource.

Wow! We’ve got first visitor from Google! And his/her search phrase was “cakephp screencast“. Thanks to Google for such fast indexing - just 2 days since project started till first visitor came here .