It does a far better job than Google's video search at pulling up the exact episode you want and provides a lot more info about each show, its characters and related content.
For a company that has built its strategic lead, and lofty market cap, on best-of-breed search technology, this is a major weakness in Google's video-search offering.
The UrtheCast website will feel like a blend of Google Earth with the video playback and search functionality of YouTube.
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Long-term, that may be true, especially as Google extends more beyond search advertising into video, mobile, and display ads.
Both products aim to make YouTube more attractive to both viewers and advertisers, whom YouTube is still educating in how to make effective Web video ads, a much tougher problem than Google search ads.
Feeding off the success of Facebook and other social media, display grew at a rate of 21.3% in 2010, compared with 16.1% growth for search and 15.3% for online advertising as a whole. (Read Google Extends Lead In Search As AOL Creeps Up In Online Video).
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And soon we'll have the Google phone, which will be manufactured by others but will include a Google operating system, browser, search, e-mail and video.
Android's rise has also meant Google's revenue-generating Web-search engine, YouTube video service and other apps are preinstalled on 750 million devices made by 60 manufacturers world-wide.
For video search, AOL has acquired Singingfish.com and Truveo, video-search engines that search based on metadata--like Google and Yahoo!
But Google Chief Executive EricSchmidtEric Schmidt has also said that the search giant is working on its own video fingerprinting system.
But Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt has also said that the search giant is working on its own video fingerprinting system.
Along with the search function, which encompasses Web, news image, video and map content, like Google , the site hosts job listings and professional profiles.
Along with the search function, which encompasses Web, news image, video and map content, like Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ), the site hosts job listings and professional profiles.
Google has dominated online search for years now, and could be on track to flex its muscle both in video advertising and mobile.
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