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Google Moves Into Video

Posted by Hemos on from the finally-tipping-their-hand dept.

prostoalex writes "Google will start indexing previously aired content from ABC, PBS, Fox News and C-SPAN and offer it as part of its Web search. No fancy speech-to-text recognition, just the closed captioning provided by the television networks, and no direct links to videocontent either." Right now, most of the channels are SF Bay area stations, but obviously more will be coming along. I saw a demo of this about six months or so ago - it's pretty cool, and interesting to see how far it has come.

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  1. Re:Whoops by zavfoud · · Score: 3, Funny

    "detrimental performance impact on their servers from the increased exposure" This is google not World of Warcraft. ;)

  2. This doesn't change anything.... by The-Bus · · Score: 3, Funny

    Google Suggest's 'p' search term will definitely still be Paris Hilton.

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  3. great.. just great by apostrophesemicolon · · Score: 5, Funny

    now how will C-Span's coverage of White House speeches deal with teh great use of English literature such as the following?

    Bush:
    "nucular"
    "abu.. abu.. abu.. abu grabby prison"

    Rumsfeld:
    "here are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know."

  4. I for one welcome our search engine overlords... by bigdaddyhame · · Score: 5, Funny


    Google = SkyNet.

    So when exactly does the Google A.I. go online? Just curious so I can start caching weapons in the desert.

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  5. Re:I for one welcome our search engine overlords.. by zwei2stein · · Score: 2, Funny

    you mean ... you havent started yet? ... yet another human horribly underprepared for army of death of our beloved overlord google.

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  6. Re:Not as good as it sounds by Vasan · · Score: 2, Funny
    Captions (also on DVD subtitles) seem to be shorthand summaries of what was said, when it's usually possible for them to be exact transcripts.

    And sometimes the subtitles are quite accurate.

  7. Re:I for one welcome our search engine overlords.. by Zembar · · Score: 2, Funny

    You mean you don't know about the beta version at ai.google.com? If there ever would be a place for an "I feel assimilated" button, that would be it.

  8. Interesting Closed Captions by N1ck0 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I noticed last night that you guys have interesting closed captions in Mountain View.

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    On the other hand, it is Fox News Channel.