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Coming soon: Google TV?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the wouldn't-that-be-special dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are quietly developing new search tools for digital video, reports ZDNet. Google's effort, until now secret, is arguably the most ambitious of the three, the report states. It quotes sources familiar with the plan saying the search giant is courting broadcasters and cable networks with a new technology that would do for television what it has already done for the Internet: sort through and reveal needles of video clips from within the haystack archives of major network TV shows."

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  1. More like TV Guide by GillBates0 · · Score: 4, Informative
    They're not talking about hosting video...they're just talking about making online video content more searchable/accessible.

    Sounds more like TV Guide, rather than content itself.

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  2. Re:Coupled with a pay per view model... by savagedome · · Score: 5, Informative

    search with a pay per view service on TV shows

    I use http://www.tvtorrents.net/ to catch up on my tv

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  3. Re:This is great! by Zork+the+Almighty · · Score: 5, Informative

    You are mistaken. In the United States, the vast majority of recorded works remain under copyright. It does not matter that nobody can contact the rightsholders to get permission, you can not use it. Thank Disney / Universal / Viacom / Time Warner / Fox for that one. The reality is that big media does not want to compete with the public domain.

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  4. Video search? by barcodez · · Score: 4, Informative

    What you mean like this?

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