Check out the new video meta-search capability, now shown on the front page of most of our video channel sites, which combines results from multiple search engines on a single page. We're also now finding publicly-hosted Internet videos through the Yahoo video search API, as well as those hosted at YouTube, Google Video, and Revver.

What does the future of video sharing look like? Well, increaslingly it seems like the hosting sites are leaning into the spirit of distributed delivery. Already YouTube allows search engines to search and spider materials -- it'as in their Terms of Service ("... YouTube grants the operators of public search engines permission to use spiders to copy materials from the site for the sole purpose of creating publicly available searchable indices of the materials ...")

And sites like PeekVid are now embedding the YouTube player in pages with Google AdSense banners -- and YouTube seems to be interested in encouraging this sub-distribution movement. (Julie Supan, YouTube Marketing Driector, tells CNet "the way they're streaming the video into their site is not a violation of our terms of service".)