Yahoo! Gets A Video Search... So How Can Google Lag Behind...

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Google Too Gets A Video Search…!!!

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But What’s This…

Search engine Google sets sights on video

By Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY

Internet search giant Google’s next target: video.
Monday night, Google (GOOG) introduced a test site that searches closed-caption TV show transcripts (www.google.com/video).
What the site won’t let you do is locate specific video clips, even though some smaller video search engines offer that. Google says clips will come in the next version. (Related: You are the everything? Google hires Firefox engineer)
Rival Yahoo (YHOO) countered Google’s Monday announcement by saying it would incorporate closed-caption transcripts at its test site video.search.yahoo.com by the end of February. Yahoo said it also will add searchable news video clips — currently unavailable.
Google is working with transcripts from ABC, PBS, C-Span and Fox News.
As more video goes online, the ability to search for it is the next frontier, Internet search analysts say.
“Wherever the information exists, we want to get it to the user,” says Google Vice President Jonathan Rosenberg. “Last year, we introduced tools to find it on the (computer) hard drive and in e-mail. Now, it’s video.”
Users of Google Video can search for a phrase — say, Bill Cosby discussing parenting — and find a link to PBS’ Tavis Smiley talk show. They will get a snippet of text, plus a visual from the show, a link to PBS.org and listings of show air times.
Danny Sullivan, editor of the SearchEngineWatch online newsletter, thinks many Net surfers will be disappointed with Google’s service.
That’s because, he says, they’ll be expecting links to video clips — what they can get now with smaller video search engines Blinkx.tv and America Online-owned SingingFish.com.
Video clips of scripted TV shows aren’t available for searching because of copyright issues.
Much of the video on the Web comes from news organizations.
CNN and ABC News charge for watching most clips, while CBS, PBS and NBC offer theirs free. British broadcasters have lots of free video, as well, searchable via the Blinkx.tv site.
C-Span CEO Brian Lamb says he’s delighted to get his public service programming out to more people through Google.
“By making our material searchable, users can put their finger on exactly what they want,” he says.
Meanwhile, Google dismissed reports Monday from London that the Internet giant was looking to expand into Internet phone calls.
Internet phone use is in the early stages of development, by such companies as Skype and Vonage, and lets anyone with a headset and Internet connection make low-cost calls from their computer.
“This doesn’t fit in, in any way, with Google’s mission of organizing the world’s information,” Sullivan says.

-USA Today

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Well Hope We Can Get More Outa It In The Future…:hap3: