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The problem of video search has been waiting in the wings for a number of years now. True believers like Blinkx and Truveo (now part of AOL) were patiently experimenting with ways of indexing and tagging video assets long before the broadband penetration rates and usage curves supported it. During the last year, at YouTube, the dam has broken. People are starting to look for video in the same way they hunt for text.
Now we expect (or hope) that plugging "cat playing piano" into a query box will render that unctuous and ubiquitous clip. This is not just an issue for consumers searching for ephemera, either. As trade publications, libraries, event organizers, and others start filling their online... |
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