The Scour Media Agent (SMA) is a program that is used in conjunction with the Scour search service (http://www.scour.net/). This is a new kind of search service that specializes in searching for multimedia filetypes (video, animation, audio, etc.). They search 6 different protocols and have the most comprehensive webcrawlers of any search engine presently in existence. The database contains everything from links to streaming video lectures on Microbiology (coming soon) to the latest music video from the Spice Girls. They specialize even further by separating media files into their respective types (.avi, .mpg, .mov, .viv, .ram, .mp3, etc.) So, going beyond just being able to search for video files, you can specify all the way down to the file type. This free service started out as a dorm room project by a couple of Computer Science students at UCLA. Check it out at http://www.scour.net/. [ This port is maintained by Donald Burr . ]