Google Moves Into Video

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Posted by Hemos on Tuesday January 25, 2005 @01:00AM 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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already started by stefankoegl · 2005-01-25 01:08 · Score: 5, Informative

indexing has already started december 2004 and the services was launched today at http://video.google.com/
Re:Focus on searching by odyrithm · 2005-01-25 01:08 · Score: 5, Informative

try for example: pentium p4 -buy

- is your friend, use it wisely.

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Re:This doesn't change anything.... by spellraiser · 2005-01-25 01:13 · Score: 2, Informative

Google Suggest's 'p' search term will definitely still be Paris Hilton.
No, unfortunately you're wrong. Please allow me to explain.
From the article:
... previously aired content from ABC, PBS, Fox News and C-SPAN
As we all know, Miss Hilton's and Miss Simpson's ever-popular show, The Simple Life, is a FOX production, so it won't be included.
Pity.
P.S. You were talking about that show, right?

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the submitter forgot the link by zr-rifle · 2005-01-25 01:21 · Score: 4, Informative

it's obviously video.google.com

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Yahoo does this, too. by ubernostrum · 2005-01-25 01:28 · Score: 2, Informative

See here or here. Unlike Google, they provide a "Ply this video" link for each result.
Including Commercials by technix4beos · 2005-01-25 01:38 · Score: 3, Informative

It appears the search engine still doesn't distinguish from commercials.

Check out this link to the word "Enterprise":

http://video.google.com/videopreview?q=enterprise& time=1635000&page=1&docid=-461731869880380565&urlc reated=1106660109&chan=KBHK&prog=Star+Trek%3A+Ente rprise+%7C+Observer+Effect&date=Sun+Jan+23+2005+at +8%3A00+PM+PST&hmac=p/JYdFPwXt3fhHNmwFo9vvVaTYY.

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Re:Cool by ceeam · 2005-01-25 02:07 · Score: 3, Informative

Sure, use www.google.ca, groups.google.ca.
Re:Cool by MrP-(at+work) · 2005-01-25 02:07 · Score: 2, Informative

The Canadian google groups still has the old interface: http://groups.google.ca

Yay Canada is good for something after all! =P

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Re:Not as good as it sounds by TheSync · 2005-01-25 03:05 · Score: 2, Informative

About 60 cps, that is only NTSC line 21 (EIA 608) captions. In the digital TV world (ATSC), EIA 708 captions have much more bandwidth. But few people are making 708 captions directly today, generally they are produced from existing 608 captions.
Re:Check Out Critical Mention... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-01-25 05:23 · Score: 1, Informative

Of course, Critical Mention is a pay service that charges $550 a month. Are you a shill for them? ;)