Friday, January 11, 2008

vtap.com or regionalized India.vtap.com !

What would you do when you want to see the new Rs. 1 Lakh car  which was presented to us, Indians by TATA Motors ? What if you want to see the video of the car to find the look and feel of it ?

vTapMy choice would be to search in vtap.com. This ultimate video search engine gives me the power to find out informational videos, entertainment videos, news videos, sports, user videos (which are hugely crappy or pathetic, but a few gems), music videos etcetera. The most powerful feature of vtap engine is its search capability, where it does an incremental search and you can see results of the typed in query without you clicking on the "Go" button. The search is so good that, I don't have to type in the whole characters of my (current) favourite singer "alizee" to find her videos. All it takes is type up to "aliz" and I can see the results already showing the pretty singer smiling at me.

vtap.com also provides your mobile (iphone, windows mobiles (source available here), large number of web enabled phones and itouch) with this search facility where you can use either a downloadable client or by going to vtap for mobile (http://m.vtap.com). Alas, one feature missing in vtap for mobile is the incremental search, so you have to go "clicky clicky" each time you want to see the results. Over the gprs in India this will really test your patience, talking about rigorous testing. Though at office or home, with those wifi enabled mobile, its a virtue.

Latest news is that vTap is bundled with Motorola mobile phones starting from their latest model MOTO Z10 onwards. I bought a Motorokr E6 recently and now I feel I should have waited a little while more so that I can buy MOTO Z10 with vTap bundled.

If you have a mobile which is supported by vtap and have a data plan activated, do try out vTap. Even with a PC you can use vTap to do more precise search than any other video search feature provides.

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