Coming soon: Google TV?

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday November 30, 2004 @02:38AM 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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yay by unknown51a · 2004-11-30 02:40 · Score: 4, Funny

great... more reasons to sit in front of a pc

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Cool by Anonymous Coward · 2004-11-30 02:40 · Score: 5, Funny

Now I won't have to search for the remote
I'm feeling lucky by yahyamf · 2004-11-30 02:41 · Score: 5, Funny

Hmm, now where can I get a remote with an "I'm feeling lucky" button? In Korea maybe?
This is great! by delta_avi_delta · 2004-11-30 02:41 · Score: 4, Interesting

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.
1. Re:This is great! by Zork+the+Almighty · 2004-11-30 02:45 · 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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The saddest thing by Zork+the+Almighty · 2004-11-30 02:41 · Score: 5, Insightful

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.

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Coupled with a pay per view model... by jarich · 2004-11-30 02:42 · Score: 4, Interesting

If Google can setup the search with a pay per view service on TV shows, this could put a dent in the P2P scene.
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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1. Re:Coupled with a pay per view model... by savagedome · 2004-11-30 02:45 · 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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I've tested the beta... by oexeo · 2004-11-30 02:44 · Score: 4, Funny

Google TV Search: Something actually worth watching
No results found

Suggestions:
- Try lowering your standards to an obscene level
More like TV Guide by GillBates0 · 2004-11-30 02:45 · 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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Video search? by barcodez · 2004-11-30 02:50 · Score: 4, Informative

What you mean like this?

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