Search Battle Heading to Video

loid_void wrote to mention a Wired story covering the video search battle between the major portals. From the article: "As millions of broadband subscribers who missed a wardrobe-malfunction moment on TV can attest, the internet can be a convenient resource for finding much-talked-about events on video. Large net portals and a handful of smaller sites are looking to change that. In recent weeks, Yahoo, Google and MSN have each rolled out services designed to make it easier to upload or locate video online. The portals' rollouts come as a handful of startups and independent film sites are creating tools to make putting video online nearly as simple as publishing text."

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They want to *change* that?

[Anonymous Coward]

Large net portals and a handful of smaller sites are looking to change that.

Surely, they're looking to enhance the convenience, not change it - not much point in working hard on taking away the convenience, unless you're a porn censor?!

Badly written article.

[ToadMan8]

How misleading this text is:

"As millions of broadband subscribers who missed a wardrobe-malfunction moment on TV can attest, the internet can be a convenient resource for finding much-talked-about events on video. Large net portals and a handful of smaller sites are looking to change that."

Should I interpret that as "..., the Internet ... a convenient resource..." "... sites ... are looking to change that [and make it a not-convenient source?]"

I mean, the Internet was a convenient resource to find music and movies to DL and the RIAA / MPAA has changed that, for certain. For something hundreds of thousands will read I assumed the editors would, well, edit.

I hate to mention this,

[jolande]

But will this be used for anything other then porn? (not that I'm complaning)