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  • From: Paul Jones <pjones AT metalab.unc.edu>
  • To: Evan Zimmerman <evan.zimmerman AT gmail.com>, "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Google Video
  • Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:11:58 -0500 (EST)

[ article with links at http://ibiblio.org/pjones/blog/ ]

Google just made their video search engine available today. Even though
the database is made up only of the past month's offerings from ABC, PBS,
Fox News and C-SPAN, it's very impressive -- and as of this morning very
fast.

The results are an image and a snippet of the transcript for each hit.
Downsides include no final video results; you get a 5 image story board
with text instead and a small very small database.

Google has a high overview description on the about pages. The Help/FAQ
pages also give you a lot of insight into the transcript-oriented search.
Nice features like title: and channel:





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