A method for facilitating the search of video content by matching fingerprint data extracted from a given video content with existing video fingerprint data already stored in the database. The system consists of systems for extracting fingerprint from the video content, the database for storing plurality of fingerprint data entries from known video content segments and systems for comparing between the fingerprint data obtained from the video content with the fingerprint data entries obtained from the fingerprint database. Once a match is identified, the video content associated with the matched fingerprint in the database is said to be identified by the information in the database associated with the match. The information referenced from the database includes archived video information.