Today, Google officially launched video.google.com. Alongside the new site comes a new browser plug-in based on VLC, the open source video player. With the plug-in installed, users can search and view videos marked with a play button (example). Google describe the service as part of their mission to "organize the world's information, and that includes the thousands of programs that play on our TVs every day". The search technology examines transcript and meta-data associated with the video to provide relevant results for the user. The service also offers information like when the next edition of the program will be screened.
"Just type in your search term (for instance, ipod or Napa Valley) or do a more advanced search (for instance, title:nightline) and Google Video will search the closed captioning and text descriptions of all the videos in our archive for relevant results. Click on a video title on your results page and you can view still images from the video and, where a transcript is available, short snippets of transcript text."
Asides from launching Google into a new search medium, the service cunningly places the company in a whole new market. Google launched earlier in the year a free video upload program; it also allowed people to charge viewers, with going "sharing" the revenue. The imminent Google payment program is expected to bring this system live. When it does, the process will make Google an ever powerful media player, and will also opens up another potentially lucrative revenue stream for the company. One can't but wonder what the plans are with the VLC-based video plugin; potentially, the company could start offering an alternative to the bloaty programs already on the market - time will tell.
In offering a "free", simple service, Google has positioned themselves yet again in a very powerful place. With ever faster internet connections, online video is an emerging but undoubtedly massive new area for the internet; Google has correctly identified this. It is surely only a matter of time before the competition update their offerings.
View: Upload Video | Video FAQ | screenshot
Download: Install the Google Video Player*
"Just type in your search term (for instance, ipod or Napa Valley) or do a more advanced search (for instance, title:nightline) and Google Video will search the closed captioning and text descriptions of all the videos in our archive for relevant results. Click on a video title on your results page and you can view still images from the video and, where a transcript is available, short snippets of transcript text."
Asides from launching Google into a new search medium, the service cunningly places the company in a whole new market. Google launched earlier in the year a free video upload program; it also allowed people to charge viewers, with going "sharing" the revenue. The imminent Google payment program is expected to bring this system live. When it does, the process will make Google an ever powerful media player, and will also opens up another potentially lucrative revenue stream for the company. One can't but wonder what the plans are with the VLC-based video plugin; potentially, the company could start offering an alternative to the bloaty programs already on the market - time will tell.
In offering a "free", simple service, Google has positioned themselves yet again in a very powerful place. With ever faster internet connections, online video is an emerging but undoubtedly massive new area for the internet; Google has correctly identified this. It is surely only a matter of time before the competition update their offerings.
View: Upload Video | Video FAQ | screenshot Download: Install the Google Video Player*
* : This is a browser plug-in; it requires Windows 2000 or later with latest updates installed; Firefox 1.0+ or IE 5.0+. Mac and Linux versions coming soon.
lol at the bloaty programs link
sounds pretty good tho
This has been in open beta for ages, with the undownloadable TV clip search.
Can we now actually download videos for free in the cases where the uploaders agreed on it being free? Any link to some video to try it out? Or is this yet to come? In that case, kind of an anticlimax then since nothing would actually be new yet. Except the viewer plugin, that I'd like to have something to check it out on?
Update: Ahh, sorry for the confusion... Here's an example link:
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=gamespot
Searches resulting in playable videos were just surprisingly well hidden.
Last edited by 21023 on 27 Jun 2005 - 19:42
See here and here.
Imagine scanning in a picture of someone, or recording a segment of their voice, and asking the computer to search through all the video files available that has that person or that voice in it. Now compile only the relevant frames I want into one video. It would be great for congressional hearing and researchers. Not so great big brother implications.
I personally get the feeling Yahoo will have more movies, but with a worse signal-to-noise ratio.
I think it's either flaky or just sensitive when used with Firefox. It at least didn't work on a 1.1 nightly, as if it wasn't even recognized, so they may mean "Firefox 1.0" literally. This can be a problem for some Fx users.
Copy the files from this folder:
C
Into this folder:
C
not in components.
At least for me thats worked, if you are using deer park put it in the plugins dir.
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