Google, Yahoo To Provide Video Search

By Ian Bell January 25, 2005

“Results are displayed with a still image of the video, along with snippets of text that contain the search terms. Yahoo, meanwhile, has ramped up video search efforts of its own in response to Google’s move.

Still in early beta testing, Google Video has been indexing since December television programming from PBS, Fox News, CSPAN, as well as local San Francisco channels including ABC and NBC. Until licensing is ironed out, users will not able to view the full video clip nor read a transcript of the program. “

“Now users can search the content of thousands of TV programs, find the shows that have the information they’re looking for, and learn when they can watch them,” Google co-founder Larry Page said in a statement.

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