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December 17, 2004
Media Search: Blinkx TV & Yahoo! video
The foundations for widespread-consumer use internet TV move onwards with a couple of recent reports.
The first is blinkx Unveils Search Engine for TV, in which blinkx has developed a search feature for video media. According to the report:
blinkx captures and indexes the entire video stream directly from the television, consumers can get straight to the exact clip they want.
Consumers can now search and access news, movie trailers, popular multimedia segments and other video formats on demand.
Video Smart Folders (available at http://www.blinkx.tv ) enable users to create intelligent folders that continuously populate themselves with multi-media content, based on the parameters set by the user. The result is that users have on demand access to relevant content. Each Video Smart Folder contains content from multiple sources that is specifically relevant to each individual, and acts as a persistent query. If you want to be notified when a news flash becomes available on the latest developments ... you can customize a search that will automatically download high quality video to your computer.
Sounds interesting, yes?
Well, Yahoo! are not to be left behind. As Gary Price reports at SearchEngineWatch in Yahoo Launches Video Search Prototype, New Media RSS Format, he details how Yahoo! have been developing media search technology to form Yahoo! video search beta.
Gary Price also referrers to other key articles on internet TV and search, which are definitely worth referencing:
Searching Television via Closed-Captioning
Video Search: Google, Yahoo, and MSN
Search Meets TV
The Next Search Titan: Comcast?
Posted by at December 17, 2004 09:41 PM
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