"Video search is difficult, " he says, explaining that most video search looks for descriptive text in tags attached to the video, which can be incomplete or misleading.
For video search, AOL has acquired Singingfish.com and Truveo, video-search engines that search based on metadata--like Google and Yahoo!
"Its driven by applications and services that continue to grow, be it search, video content, cloud computing, social networks, business analytics - all these use huge amount of data, " he said.
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Blinkx bills itself as the world's largest video search engine and says it has indexed more video, audio and TV shows on the Web than anyone: 35 million hours of it.
Blinkx, a video search company, creates some stylish order around the vast video haul.
She also did business development at Truveo, a video search platform (eventually acquired by AOL).
Long-term, that may be true, especially as Google extends more beyond search advertising into video, mobile, and display ads.
Microsoft, which has its own Web services such as Bing search and Skype video chat, also is conducting such trials in Africa.
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Norvig's group is pursuing video search and personalized search, as well as a program to index data from library books and photos.
Separately, Blinkx has also been working to develop its video search engine across multiple platforms, including mobile devices, tablets and connected televisions, Chandratillake said.
Written by Suranga Chandratillake, the founder and chief strategy officer of blinkx, an Internet search engine for video and audio content in San Francisco.
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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.
But the key to unlocking profits from the torrent of homegrown online videos may instead be in the hands of a small British video search company called Blinkx .
Matrox PC-VCR 2.0, the included software used for TV recording, includes the capability to search for specific video using keywords in closed-captioning, as well as create text transcripts of shows.
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.
The South Korean giant, which began in 1938 as an exporter of vegetables and dried fish to Manchuria, showed off 4K TVs, OLED TVs, tools for video search, and phalanxes of smart phones.
The search giant's video offering called Hangout has received rave reviews so far.
Locally-operated websites like the Chinese microblogging services, search engines, online video websites and blog hosts, are required by the government to remove any objectionable content.
Muxlim.com is trying to tap into a parallel market with a site that offers file-sharing, streaming video, search and social networking, all for a Muslim audience.
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.
Mayer admits that the video-search product unveiled last month isn't ready yet, and that it still needs a better way to organize clips and produce more relevant results.
Samsung's AllShare Play service allows you to search for and play video, photo, and music files freely across AllShare Play-enabled devices such as PCs, TVs, and mobile devices.
Nearly three years after Brin's 2003 paper, Google (nyse: GOOG - news - people ) still relies on such metadata for its fledgling video-search service.
The UrtheCast website will feel like a blend of Google Earth with the video playback and search functionality of YouTube.
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At the core of InterneTV is a powerful software application that aggregates both subscription-based and free content from hundreds of websites, making it easy and intuitive to search, access and view video content.
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