Glossary U-V

Vevo is a combined effort of Google owned YouTube and Universal Music Group. It is a separately branded site for music videos.

Visual Voicemail is an Android app by T-Mobile for myTouch and G1 users. It allows you to graphically navigate your voicemail system. Instead of having to call your voicemail box and press number sequences to delete, skip, and play messages, Visual Voicemail shows you messages in a list and lets you choose how to handle them.

Video comments are the text comments to a particular video on YouTube. Comments made as new videos are called video responses.

A video response is a video created as a reply to another user's video. Most commonly video responses are made by someone simply recording themselves talking in front of a Web cam.

Vocito is an application for Macs that lets you use GrandCentral to connect two phone numbers. (You can't use your GrandCentral number as either of those numbers.)

Vlog is a combination of the words "video" and "blog." A vlog is a series of personal reflective videos that are usually made simply by talking to a Web cam and uploading the video to YouTube.

VisualRank is a Google system for identifying images, similar to what PageRank does for Web pages.

Virgle was a 2008 April Fool's Day prank suggesting a joint venture with Google and Virgin Galactic to colonize Mars.

Google universal search results mean that results from multiple specialized searches will appear within the main Google Web search results.

University Search allows you narrow your search to within a specific college or university’s website.

Google Video is a beta service that allows you to search for, upload, and purchase videos. Videos are offered either free of charge or for a price set by the content creator.

What is a vertical search engine?