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[PSUs]| Tuesday 28th June 2005 |
Google Video extends the company's reach over the world's information and gives search access to the growing Web archive of TV programming, primarily from US channels
It searches the closed captioning and text descriptions of all the videos in the Google archive for relevant results. As well as identifying whole videos, the technology can also find sections within videos that match the
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However not all are results playable and those that are require Google's own, currently Windows-only Video Viewer plugin for Firefox and Internet Explorer. Google promises that a Mac version will be released soon.
Earlier this year, Google launched a Video Upload Program to enable content creators to begin populating its archive. That content is now available, and Google is encouraging people to continue sending in their clips.
'I've been amazed by your cool videos,' said Matthew Vosburgh, Google video software engineer. 'I had never seen a robot dog harassing an iguana before, or a monkey doing karate, and I had no idea you were such good dancers.'
He pointed to a selection of creative video at video.google.com/video_interesting.html.
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