Google Launches Video Search
video.google.com
"No fancy speech-to-text recognition, just the closed captioning provided by the television networks, and no direct links to videocontent either." -- Slashdot
Flashback: "Google Rules Out Video Search"
"Speaking at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Google co-founder Sergey Brin explained why the search engine does not intend to offer users a video search feature. Brin cited problems with standards and compatibility in the video software industry, as well as a lack of content, as reasons why he remains uninterested in developing an AltaVista-style video search."
--MediaJunk, March 16, 2004
Previous posts:
Searchable Video: Blinkx
Future: Searchable Video (Yahoo's video search)
Text Indexing of Video Footage
Future: Searchable Print Publications
Towards Clickable Print Publications