Google Video is released as TV search service

January 26, 2005

Google released its TV search service on Monday. Google is currently beta testing the service and right now there is limited programming to search. Searching is available for some local ABC and NBS affiliates, PBS, C-SPAN, and Fox News. Interestingly, Google actually searches the closed captioning text of the TV programs in their databases. While Google searches TV, Yahoo takes a different approach and has a much wider variety of clips to search on any particular topic.

  • Jeremy

    Google Video Search is mediocre compared to other video search engines out there. If you want to partner anyone up with TiVo, I’d say go with BlinkxTV. They are connected to more channels, are easier to use and are more comprehensive as a search agent. Check it out at http://www.blinkx.tv.

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    Now that the Google Video Search is in beta, someone(hint for the people at TiVo, Inc and Google Inc) needs to figure out a way to integrate that with TiVo content already recorded. It would be really cool to be…

  • sassan

    thanks

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