New TV search service for Google
26 January 2005
Google has unveiled a new search service that enables users to look for television programmes.
The service, Google Video beta, searches closed caption information that comes with programmes and pinpoints where in a clip the search term appears.
The search giant's video service currently only examines US channel content and produces a results list of programmes with still images and text from the point where the search phrase was spoken. The results also detail programme and episode information like channel, date and time.
Google announced that the service is expected to expand to include content from more channels. Google Video has been indexing US-based programmes from PBS, the NBA, Fox News, and C-SPAN since December.
"We think TV is a big part of people's lives," said Jonathan Rosenberg, Google's vice president of product management. "Ultimately, we would like to have all TV programming indexed."
Yahoo! is also in the process of developing a video search service for webcasts and TV clips that offers direct links to websites with movies or other clips relevant to the search query.
Apply for your free web assessment - get a complete health check and optimisation action plan from Weboptimiser, the experts.
Related news
|
|
Leading brand search engine marketing since 1996
Founded in 1996 as an SEO company, Weboptimiser is today one of the Internet marketing sector's best-known and most respected search engine optimisation (SEO) and pay per click (PPC) search engine marketing companies.
With a unique portfolio of brand-friendly services, including usability, contextual advertising and web analytics, a pioneering methodology that covers all 4 stages of interaction between a web site and its visitors, we make our clients sites faster, smarter, busier and more profitable.
