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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."
great... more reasons to sit in front of a pc
I had an imaginary sig once, he said I was a loser and ran off.
Now I won't have to search for the remote
Hmm, now where can I get a remote with an "I'm feeling lucky" button? In Korea maybe?
If I'm not mistaken, vast quantities of tv archive, much of it from the "golden age" when people expected their educational programs to be presided over by professors, is in the public domain. I'd love to be able to dig up some early BBC2.
Yeah, but just try getting at that content. It will be like scholarly journals. Anyone can search and find anything, but then you have to mortgage your house for an annual subscription to view the content. The promise of a true digital library is a long way off, so long as we have insane copyright laws.
In Soviet America the banks rob you!
Imagine being able to look up an old Seinfeld, and then watch it for fifty cents. Or the latest Smallville, or ...
If anyone can pull this off, it's Google.
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Sounds more like TV Guide, rather than content itself.
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I'm really looking forward to this.
I'm using Google's image-search very often (and love it!) and I could really use video clip-search.
However, considering how well many sites hide the actual video clips (and I'm not talking about porn), I guess Google might face strong resistance from content providers (wasn't there last week a story about a porn website sueing Google over image-search?)
I don't need a signature.
Google engineers may want to add information to their database, but that would require actually wading through millions of hours of bad television.
Actually, Google's idea is to use the closed-caption feed text for tagging, so nobody has to watch anything. IMHO, this is a brilliant strategy because (obviously) closed-captioning by its natuire offers high correlation between the text and images in any given section of video.
implement targeted commericals? Still, it would be better than seeing tampon and herpes medication ads (for me at least).
What you mean like this?
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Google's trying to bring TV to the Web the same way they're bringing books to the Web
This is a weird way to describe what Google does... if they bring anything to the Web, it's the Web itself!
But here's the best part of the entire article, IMHO:
Google has been working with National Public Radio and others to index transcripts of audio already on the Internet so that clips can be searchable from its news search engine.
Personally, I would use the video search engine only occasionally... but there is an unbelievable amount of high-quality content that NPR provides on its website, going back years -- interviews, shows, projects, special reports, hell, even Car Talk. The radio thing is a real gem, and I can't wait to use it.
perl -e 'foreach(values %SIG){$_="IGNORE";}while(){}'
Here's an excerpt from their front page: You used to be able to sign up for a free trial (now you have to e-mail them) but the top-10 "search" words for TV were interesting. Osama Bin-Laden always held the #1 spot, and Martha Stewart was popular too.
-Fred
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American Public." - H.L. Mencken