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[Paul Jones <pjones AT metalab.unc.edu>]

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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: