Google TV
How would you like to Google your tv?
The fine folks at the famed search engine have now made it possible to search television content, through a service called "Google Video"!
According to Google,
Our mission is to organize the world's information, and that includes the thousands of programs that play on our TVs every day. Google Video enables you to search a growing archive of televised content – everything from sports to dinosaur documentaries to news shows.
Just type in your search term and Google Video will search the closed captioning text of all the programs in our archive for relevant results. Click on a program title on your results page and you can look through short snippets of the text along with still images from the show. Visit the "About this show" side panel to learn when this show will air next.
Right now we're just testing this product, so you'll find programs only from a limited number of channels, which we've been indexing since late December 2004. You can expect to see more and more content as we continue to add new channels.
I typed in "Guatemala" and came up with shows about immigration, chocolate, dolphins, coffee, farming, and one very unlucky Jeopardy contestant with some seriously lost luggage.
You have to try it to believe it. Google my tv!
Next up: Google the contents of your refrigerator.
Posted by elcanche at February 2, 2005 01:59 PM