Google adds TV search
by Kent Lewis on January 31, 2005UncategorizedGoogle’s new baby, Google Video, lets American searchers search the content of television channels such as PBS, the NBA, Fox News, and C-SPAN, among others. The reason you are able to search the actual content of the programs, and not only a program presentation, is the existence of embedded text content, so-called closed captioning (subtitles for the hearing impaired etc).
Here are some of the features of this service:
+Preview page: Displays up to five still video images and five short text segments from each program.
+Upcoming episodes: Shows when the program will be aired next.
+Search within the show: Enables searching for specific words within a given program.
+Program details: Offers program and episode information including channel, date and time.
+Change location: Finds the next time and channel where a program will air locally according to zip code.