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Google rummages through TV shows
* 18:31 25 January 2005
* NewScientist.com news service
* Will Knight
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The internet's most popular search engine, Google, is testing a service that promises to extend its reach from web pages to television programmes.
Google Video scans through television shows by analysing the subtitles provided for people with hearing difficulties. The company hopes that exploiting this niche service will prove a simple yet effective way to identify the content of a programme automatically.
Analysts say the service marks another significant attempt by Google to extend its wide scope yet further. The search engine already lets users search for images, products and news and, in October 2004, launched a tool to enable users to rapidly locate documents on their computer's hard drive as well.
Google Video is currently in its "beta" testing phase and does not link to any of the programmes that may be available online. Instead it scans through the subtitles and returns still images of the shows, snippets of text and information about when the programme is showing. At present the service is limited to a handful of US television stations - ABC, PBS, Fox News and C-SPAN.
Early stages
Danny Sullivan, editor of the website SearchEngineWatch, agrees that the service is far from complete but expects it to expand rapidly. "It's still evolving," he told New Scientist.
"It's a good idea because people would love to be able to locate stuff on television along with stuff on the web," he adds. Sullivan says that if the service proves popular, Google will undoubtedly extend it to other channels and perhaps add the ability to search for online video files too.
He notes that the firm has already developed a way to access its search engine over the phone, using voice-recognition software. This could be extended to analyse and transcribe audio from television programs automatically, Sullivan suggests.
Several of Google's rivals already let users search for video files stored online, through file-name searches. Yahoo launched a video search service in December 2004, for example. But the most popular way to locate and download video files is through file sharing networks like eMule and BitTorrent, though much of the copyrighted content they offer is shared illegally. |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 5:22 am Post subject: Google Current |
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This will be very interesting to see what come of this. I just hope the search queries aren't too bizzare, turning off the general public in what is deemed as newsworthy! The second story is just a hoot! Please notice the ending of the source URL.
Google Powered TV News - Google Current
| Quote: | Google Zeitgeist powered TV News, Google Current, is coming to a television near you with the new launch of the Current network. Former Vice President Al Gore and entrepreneur Joel Hyatt unvelied Current today, which is the first national network created by, for and with an 18-34 year-old audience. Current will offer 24 hours of programming in a unique, short-form content format when it premieres in August.
“Google Current,” built using samplings of popular Google search data, including from Google Zeitgeist, complements the free-flowing pod format with news updates each half-hour. Thirty seconds to three minutes in length, these segments buck conventional news practices by reporting not on what media editors decide is “news,” but on the topics people are actually searching for right now. So news isn’t what the network thinks you should know, but what the world is searching to learn. |
Google Current
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By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Tuesday 5th April 2005
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The internet's transformation into a really dodgy public access cable channel continues a pace. Google co-founder Larry Page has announced that the company wants the public to send in its homemade videos - and he doesn't mind how mucky they are.
"There might be an adult section, or something like that. I don't think that is going to be a big issue," Page told attendees at the National Cable and Telecommunications Show in San Francisco on Monday, where he was speaking on a panel.
Google has yet to formally announce the proposal but Page said to expect the doors to open "within the next few days".
Officially, it's in the name of research. Google started indexing TV shows late last year, and Page wants to use the public contributions to test its prototype video search software, which uses pattern matching to find words or phrases in video clips. And surely there can be no more daunting a challange than to identify the tattoo on a swinger's cellulite-dimpled buttocks.
Unofficially, this is perhaps an acknowledgement of the web's changing demographic. In a recent survey 23 per cent of Britons cited pornography as their primary reason for getting broadband internet, far outweighing any other factor. |
The Register
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I think it would be great if there was a Google search for television channels and shows. It would help me locate what really interests me. 
Ya know...I think it'd be cool for those people who have interactive television services, such as satelite or TiVo, to be able to search channels directly with their remote. If that feature to be added, I wouldn't hesitate to get TiVo anymore.
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They have added 14 channels to their video service. The article states that Google will NOT release the full lineup just yet, but was fairly cool for sharing these so far:
Discovery Channel
TLC
Animal Planet
Travel Channel
Discovery Health Channel
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