Coming soon: Google TV?

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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How it will work

[tod_miller]

To build the service, the company is recording live TV shows and indexing the related closed-caption text of the programming. It uses the text to identify themes, concepts and relevant keywords for video so they can be triggers for searching.

Oh great, so apologies for all deaf/hard of hearing or people looking at captions for translations, as execs play SPAM like phrases into programming, as this gets too obvious, whole scripts will be edited:

Have you seen Friends series 15? The one with the cheap pharmacy:

[In joeys apartment]

Ross: Hello Rachael, I have found the cheapest ph4rmacy
Rachael: Oh ross, viagra at the cheapest prices

Chandler bursts through door

Chandler: did someone say viagra cheap online delivery bucket?
Ross: Hey Chandler how is you live teeen sex insurance doing?
Chandler: [puzzled look] fine I guess Ross... How is your realtionship with britney spears breasts

Rachael feigns horror

Ross: Don't you look like that, I know about your lesbian teen sex orgy with britney spears.

Chandler: OMG I don't need viagra anymore, thank old korean people for that!

Monica comes through door

Monica: Did I hear correctly, oh yes, lets have sex here right ont he table, so ross and rachael can see our voyeur incest penis enlargment without viagra herbal remedy.

ext joeys apartment - joey walking down hall, two brown paper bags - fiddles for keys and opens door

int - ross, rachael, monica and chandler are having sex on table, feebie is playing smelly cat on guitar, also naked

joey: guys, hey, why didn't you wait for me, i have just been shopping at the gap, they have great prices. oh, and ross, make sure you update your longhorn license, microsoft sent me a letter yesterday

ross: ungh, huh, ok, but I thought in korea only old people pay microsoft licenses...

cue end credits.

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OK, so maybe a bit far fetched... I have too much time on my hands....