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The Web: Video search engines come of age
United Press International ^ | May 18, 2005 | Gene Koprowski

Posted on 05/19/2005 9:49:34 AM PDT by Writer1

Chicago, IL, May. 18 (UPI) -- New video search capabilities, created for broadband Internet users by firms from Google to Lycos, are starting to enable people to search and view select video clips of news, public affairs and entertainment programming from television.

"Audio search exists already -- AltaVista, Lycos and AlltheWeb already have searchable audio files, MP3, WAV, Windows Media, Real, AIFF and others," said Lauren Hall, director of search engine marketing at Schipul, a Web marketing company. "(Now) you can search for video too."

(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News
KEYWORDS: google; internet; videosearch
A story about video search on the Web.
1 posted on 05/19/2005 9:49:35 AM PDT by Writer1
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To: Writer1

Years ago, Altavista had the Clinton Testimony of the Paula Jones trial indexed so that you could search it for key phrases.


2 posted on 05/19/2005 9:58:44 AM PDT by weegee (Funny how prisoners at Gitmo can have their religious books but our school kids can't.)
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To: Writer1

Does this mean we can enter a picture and get back a bunch that are similar?


3 posted on 05/19/2005 10:12:07 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: Writer1

bttt


4 posted on 05/19/2005 11:18:50 AM PDT by CGVet58 (God has granted us Liberty, and we owe Him Courage in return)
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