Yahoo!‘s blog offers up some technical details on the portal’s new video search capability. Using Media RSS—the same type of enclosures available in RSS 2.0 that make podcasting possible—Yahoo! is able to produce search results that show a thumbnail of the video along with the duration and file size and the URL where it was found. “Rather than build a completely new way to do this, we decided to see what it takes to make RSS Enclosures work for video content as well: video enclosures,” Jeremy Zawodny reports on the blog. “It’s not a new idea but we think it’s one whose time has come.”

What will bloggers and others do with this new technology? The folks over at Business 2.0 report on their blog that one of the first uses was applied by Fleshbot, the porn-focused blog, where they’ve assembled a series of pre-defined Yahoo! video searches on keywords designed to uncover explicit videos. Figures. But there must be better uses to which video enclosures can be put.