And there is a search facility for people to quickly find what they are looking for.
With the simple-to-use search facility viewers can find on-demand content by programme or genre.
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Google has restricted the presence of The Pirate Bay's (TPB) web pages in its auto-complete search facility.
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At the search facility's launch event the social network said it would take steps to protect its youngest users.
This change had already been experienced by the selected group of users given early access to its Graph Search facility.
Meanwhile, Microsoft rolled out an internet-search facility that gives consumers cash back on items they have bought from certain retailers.
The Facebook activity of users aged between 13 and 17 would have limited visibility in the network's new "social graph" search facility, the firm said.
The search facility is excellent, and there are interesting economic databases.
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has increased the number of funds covered by its online comparison tables and has also added an 'ethical' filter to its search facility.
Mark Little, principal analyst at research firm Ovum, told the BBC at the time that he was "underwhelmed" by the search facility but could see commercial potential in it.
Surely, though, this search facility will be much more useful and commercially attractive if it offers users a one-stop shop - access to all the information in their social network and then in the wider web if that's not enough.
And the website's search facility throws up new research possibilities: Clive Emsley of Open University has spotted that an inspector from the Royal Mint gave evidence dozens of times during the 1840s, for example, which throws new light on the true scale of counterfeiting at that time.
This means Google will track what you search for in its search engine facility and then use that intelligence to its advantage.
Inside the facility, soldiers conducted a room-by-room search and found several hundred tons of food.
The facility could potentially draw users away from using Apple's own personalised search tool, Siri, which relies on users instigating a request.
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