Today Google announced their Google Video service. This allow you to search the close captioning of select TV stations since December 2004. Then you can view still frames from that video along with the surrounding close captioning.
TV Eyes is an existing company that has been providing a similar service for quite some time now. They cover more stations, have more archives, and also cover radio. They also provide streaming video clips and notifications.
Google's strength has always been their page rank system which brings relevant hits to the top based on link referrals. For this product they will be playing catch up with TVEyes, and their page rank system is not really much of a help. Their main resources is their powerful clusters and networks, very talented staff and their very deep pockets after the IPO.
What will be interesting is when Google combines all their search services - Catalogs, Directory, News, Usenet & Groups, Gmail, Web, Books (via A9), Scholar, TV, Froogal, Desktop, etc. - together in an intelligent single interface. Maybe with color coding to show the source. It would be interesting if the results could be displayed in a 3D view with clustering based on source and subtopics.
It would be important to still have specific searches. When Google combined their Usenet and "GoogleGroups" search (Google's answer to Yahoo! Groups) and no longer made them easily searchable individually that was a disservice to the searching public in my opinion.
Update: Yahoo! also offers Video Search. I haven't looked at it yet, so form your own opinion.
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