So, I have posted a bit about my work on the Viral Content Network (Developer Blog), but now you can actually give it a test-drive.

Viral Sauce is a video search engine using the technology I have been working on, which tries to match you up with what it hopes will be interesting content for you.

Here is where Viral Sauce is different - rather than searching for a particular video that you happen to know the title to - Viral Sauce is designed to let you enter a search term based on what kind of content you would like to see (e.g. search for "cats"). The site will try to find content that is relevant to cats, while trying to keep the results fresh and interesting.

In order to try to work out what you would like, we took a different approach from the other video search engines, developing vRank (one of the ingredients in our "Secret Sauce"), which is our measure of how popular a video is to the appropriate viewer. No simply measuring the "Most Viewed" videos - giving content that fits the lowest common denominator - our tests have shown that vRank helps viral sauce to find content that you probably have not seen before, which is probably more relevant to your search.

Please note the index is still growing fast, so there are still some search phrases that do not bring up any results, but that will decrease as we crawl more and more videos.