Searching for video content online may be a hard nut to crack, but that hasn’t stopped fierce competitors Google and Yahoo from entering the fray, albeit in different fashions. Search engines must consider both the difficulty of searching video using a written medium and the intellectual property rights of the content owners. That may be why Google, which yesterday unveiled the beta of its Google Video, has started by offering a service that searches the transcripts and close-captioning of television shows.
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Google, Yahoo Try To Crack Video Search Market
Posted by: Susan B. Shor January 26, 2005 10:26 AMSearching for video content online may be a hard nut to crack, but that hasn’t stopped fierce competitors Google and Yahoo from entering the fray, albeit in different fashions. Search engines must consider both the difficulty of searching video using a written medium and the intellectual property rights of the content owners. That may be why Google, which yesterday unveiled the beta of its Google Video, has started by offering a service that searches the transcripts and close-captioning of television shows.