The video is a segment from Fox News, where they show a simple search that can be done to uncover webcams. They find a cam that some guy in Japan installed to spy on his neighbor, and they were able to control it, turning it around to look inside the guy’s apartment. They found another that they were able to point at someone’s bed.
They used a simple search in Google - they had no idea of how many cams you could find with a purpose-built search engine like Web-Cam-Search.com.
In my searches, I get between 899,000 and 957,000 cams when I use the default search with an empty search field, but when you add all the other tools and algorithms on the page, you find over a million cams easily.
Even the University search finds over 1000 cams on college campuses, dorms, etc.
This blog and the affiliated search site at www.web-cam-search.com were launched today - in beta version. If the response is favorable, these sites, blogs and forums will be developed further. As they stand now, the search can find between 600,000 and a million webcams - and we are still developing more search algorithms.
This site was built to work in conjunction with the web-cam-search.com site, where you can find webcams all over the internet.
Many people buy webcams to be made public and leave them available to the public for general use. Others are bought by people with little technical know-how, and they install the webcam and leave it open to outsiders entirely by accident. These search tools do not discriminate - they find all webcams if they are not specifically blocked from the public and/or otherwise hidden from the search engines.