Google Video tv search
p2pnet.net News:- “What Google did for the web, Google Video aims to do for television,” says Larry Page, co-founder and president of products.
He was talking about Google’s latest effort to scramble to the fore in the search engine stakes.
“Users can search the content of TV programs for anything, see relevant thumbnails, and discover where and when to watch matching television programs,” he promises, saying the company also wants to providing enhancements – such as playback.
Google Video beta lets people search across closed captioning content of tv programs it began indexing in December, 2004, it says, going on that entering a query will return a list of relevant programs with still images and text excerpts from the exact point in the program where the search phrase was spoken.
Google says its newest app also:
- Displays up to five still video images and five short text segments from the closed captioning of each program.
- Shows when the program will be aired next.
- Enables searching for specific words within a given program.
- Offers program and episode information including channel, date and time.
- Finds the next time and channel where a program will air locally according to zip code.
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See:-
scramble – Google Tunes into TV, Google, January 25, 2005
