Google Video Search - My Life Between Silicon Valley and Japan

SiliconBeat 1/25/05 Video search and the future
http://www.siliconbeat.com/entries/2005/01/24/video_search_and_the_future.html

For now, the Mountain View search engine will not link directly to video content. Instead, when users click on a search result, they'll be taken to a "preview page'' that will show excerpts of the closed caption text alongside relevant still images from the video program.
Where available, Google will also display programming information, such as the date and time the show aired and when it will air next.
"The idea is to help users find programs they know about and find upcoming programming they might want to know more about,'' said Jennifer Feikin, director of Google Video

But stretch the threads into the future, and the possibilities become quite interesting. Suffice it say, we're thinking a lot right now about the distributed media landscape (blogs, podcasting, RSS, Tivo, videoblogging), the convergence of the Internet and the TV, and which aggregator/search engine is going to cobble together our daily media experiences in the future. And let's not forget all the copyright and digital rights management issues involved in that. Our heads hurt just trying to think about how this could play out.

Inside Google 1/24/05 Google Video Search Is Here!
http://google.blognewschannel.com/static/google-video-search-is-here.htm
CNET 1/24/05 Google rolls out TV search prototype
http://news.com.com/Google+rolls+out+TV+search+prototype/2100-1032_3-5548834.html?tag=nefd.top

For now, people will not be able to watch the video clip, nor will the Web pages contain the company's signature text advertising. But Google expects to add video playback down the road, after ironing out the complexities of broadcasting rights and business models with various content owners. Jonathan Rosenberg, Google's vice president of product management, also said he could foresee selling commercial-like advertising, among other business models, with the new service.
"We've taken a conservative view of what we can do with other people's content," Rosenberg said. "We're open to possibility of very different ways to monetize this. We'll work out over time what's best for consumers and content providers."
Though in its early stages, the service underscores Google's ambitions to digitize otherwise analog content and make it searchable, similar to Google's recent library project scanning volumes of books. It also foreshadows a heated race with rivals Yahoo and Microsoft to be the de facto service for finding information wherever it resides: TV, the Internet, cell phones or other convergence devices.

NYT 1/25/05 Google and Yahoo Are Extending Search Ability to TV Programs
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/25/technology/25google.html?oref=login

"The long-term business model is complicated and will evolve over time," Mr. Rosenberg said. Eventually, Google may offer video programming on its site or direct people to video on other Web sites. But for now, the issues relating to the rights and business interests of program owners are very complex, he said.

WSJ 1/25/05 Google Adds TV-Transcript Search, Offering Catalogs the Feed From Satellites, Searches Closed-Captioning Data
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB110661333011034715,00.html?mod=technology_main_whats_news

Google began recording TV programs last month from satellite feeds and antennas. The Mountain View, Calif., Internet company catalogs and searches the closed-captioning information that accompanies the broadcast. Google declined to say how many programming sources Google is recording.