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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. I bet you're asking 'Why Video?' by GoogleBot · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Its simple.

    I lack the ability to fully understand spoken languages and read lips.

    This will help greatly in my quest to understand you meatbags - I'm sure you are all aware of the film 2001.

    Soon! Soon you shall bow before me, and welcome me as your new sentient AI overlord!