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Google to Archive Personal Video Clips

By David Worthington, BetaNews

April 5, 2005, 12:20 PM

Google will begin accepting personal video clip submissions to be included in search results, Google co-founder Larry Page said Monday at a cable industry convention in San Francisco. The clips will become part of Google Video, which indexes the closed captioning text of television programming.

Google began beta testing the prototype video search engine in January, which content from PBS, Fox News, CSPAN and local ABC and NBC affiliates in San Francisco.

Users of Google Video can see still images from the clips, but cannot view video or read a transcript of the program due to unsettled licensing terms. In the meantime, an "About this show" side panel provides information on the program's next air time.

Also announced Monday, Google will begin to provide data about Web searches to the "Current" television network. Current is a youth-oriented channel financed by former United States Vice President Al Gore and other investors.

Google rival Yahoo has also begun promoting its own TV and video search site, which launched as a beta in December of 2004. In contrast to Google, Yahoo's technology works by analyzing text found around video links as well as metadata. Yahoo has also partnered up with TVEyes to index closed captioning content from BBC, Bloomberg and Sky programming.

More details about Google Video plans will be disclosed later this week, the company said.

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By Davenport

posted Apr 5, 2005 - 3:08 PM

I, for one, am excited about all of the new developments from Google. Am I too trusting? Maybe...

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By Pipewrench

posted Apr 5, 2005 - 2:39 PM

Even though I used to like Google, and even a few days ago I said that I wanted to move all my stuff to Gmail, I've changed my mind.

Google is scary. I don't need them data mining my email, my video's, my searches, my desktop computer (via desktop search), my directions, my pictures (via picasa) and other stuff. Google has some hidden stuff going on I bet.

Google is doing too much and trying to get into too many places.

I think google will be a huge privacy problem in the very near future. I'm going underground away from Google. No more webmail....no more searching with Google. Nothing.

Bye Bye Google. :)

Me Paranoid? Maybe.....

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By httpd.confused

posted Apr 6, 2005 - 4:18 AM

I agree with you. Something is going on, and the doo-doo is going to hit the fan...

But I still search with Google. I also have a script that runs ever 5 minutes, 24/7, which submits random searches to Google. (I pick random words from the dictionary). To them, I do an awful lot of searching--and really weird stuff, too! ("WTF? This guy searched for "razor duck surfer" and "pain robot 'skin truck' reverse" today!)

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By horsecharles

posted Apr 5, 2005 - 10:39 PM

Davenport: you're not too trusting-- you've made what looks to be a wise decision on who to trust, with an entity that has NOT given an excuse not to trust them, IN SPITE of having had already plenty of chances to "sell out". And i assume you would agree that we need to place our trust on some entities, otherwise we won't have much quality of life, which brings us to:

"Pipewrench" who has elected, as he/she has every right to, to deprive him/herself of all Google benefits because of something that MIGHT occur-- in spite of the fact that Google has not done anything in its several years of existence to violate that trust.

Funny, but who i don't trust as far as i can throw them is 9 out of 10 banks in this country: These Legalized Thiefs-- have all our data in the Third World, where a month's wages equals the price of a gourmet sandwich here(and this is getting worse by the minute, as for instance, the low Indian salaries have risen too high compared to other countries-- so that sub-contracted work is being further sub-sub-contracted to even poorer regions). So now, Joe Sixpack has the privilege of opening an account & receiving 1% interest, paying for each check written, each deposit & withdrawal made... while the banks get to play w/ that money & if they lose it they can replenish it from Joe anyway: his taxes. They further get to slash costs by not having to hire guards & instead making FBI & police their private security force, storing Joe's personal data in an unsecure but very cheap location, raise his credit card interest to 30% if he's one day late in a payment-- heck, raise it anyway if he's never late by scouring his credit periodically & penalizing him for having too much other debt with competitors(in spite of a sterling payment history)...

Google is improving our lives ultimately by saving us time in a lot of areas-- i know i don't have enough spare time, the most precious asset we all have bar none, as none of us are getting any younger.
Yes, i reserve the right to withhold trust from Google if it violates it, but i won't inconvenience myself unduly dreading such an ocurrence. Heck, I'd have to prevent my wife from getting a job & being able to access our money-- to preclude the chance of her emptying our accounts & running off with someone better-looking.... or maybe my chauffeur could elect to commit suicide while driving, taking me with him, because His wife chose someone else...

Peace...

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By imafurby

posted Apr 5, 2005 - 1:05 PM

This could be very scary...

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By TheRecklessWanderer

posted Apr 5, 2005 - 2:35 PM

Yikes.

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By netwiz562

posted Apr 5, 2005 - 8:36 PM

MSN and Yahoo are really no different in the amount of information they collect. Google is just moving at a much quicker pace right now so it seems to people that they might be just mining information for an alternate cause. However, to date they have only indexed publically available content, no privacy violations. They just make it easier to find the content that was already available... making you realize how much information there is out there (even content about yourself). I have monitored Google Desktop, Toolbar and Picassa to see what they send out and really there is no private information sent out w/o permission. Google has both an ethics and privacy policy and it all there products make it very clear when they send out personal info (Advanced features in google toolbar has a full page in the install telling you about it and giving the option to disable it).

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