"Video search is difficult, " he says, explaining that most video search looks for descriptive text in tags attached to the video, which can be incomplete or misleading.
Okolloh, 31, created the site using Ushahidi, a free piece of software that quickly creates Web sites to which eyewitnesses of war and crisis in out-of-reach places can send news by e-mail or text and have it attached to a Google map.