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Here Comes Video Search!! Now, Whats Next??

Now, here's a search engine that scans the Web for TV-related video.

The beta offering, dubbed Blinkx TV, captures and indexes video and audio streams directly from television and radio broadcasters to make available news, sports and entertainment clips. The engine lets people group specific searches using "smart folders" that continuously collect multimedia content from sources including Fox News, HBO, ESPN, National Public Radio and the BBC World Service.

Wondering why Google didn't come up with this??

According to sources, Google is courting broadcasters and cable networks with this new technology that would do for television what it has already done for the Internet: sort through and reveal needles of video clips from within the haystack archives of major network TV shows.

PS: Video is in the spotlight as the Internet begins to mature into an entertainment platform and becomes a viable companion for television, convergence devices that combine PC and TV features, and the networked home. Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are quietly developing new search tools for digital video.


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