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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.

5 of 158 comments (clear)

  1. already started by stefankoegl · · Score: 5, Informative

    indexing has already started december 2004 and the services was launched today at http://video.google.com/

  2. Re:Focus on searching by odyrithm · · Score: 5, Informative

    try for example: pentium p4 -buy

    - is your friend, use it wisely.

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  3. the submitter forgot the link by zr-rifle · · Score: 4, Informative

    it's obviously video.google.com

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  4. Including Commercials by technix4beos · · 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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  5. Re:Cool by ceeam · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sure, use www.google.ca, groups.google.ca.