Google and Yahoo, the two biggest Internet search engines, introduced functions that search the Web for video clips as the companies compete to lure Web surfers and the advertisers trying to reach them. Google, the most-used search engine, offered a service that searches television transcripts and provides links to video stills and text. The new service offered by Yahoo, the second-most-used search engine, lets users search for and play back video files found on the Web. Yahoo, Google and Microsoft's MSN are racing to add more features to their search engines. Searches for video content such as news clips, movie trailers and music videos may increase as more consumers sign up for fast Internet connections. http://www.suntimes.com/output/tech/cst-fin-emain26.html

Couch potatoes could become mouse potatoes with new services that allow users to search the content of television programs online. Google said yesterday it would allow users to search the closed-captioned text of programs, showing snippets of the text and snapshots of the program. Google rival Yahoo announced a similar service last month. Google's foray into video is one more venture in the company's goal to archive the world's information. Last month, the leading search engine announced it would archive books of major libraries. The company also is incubating search capability for scholarly literature. Google's video search engine indexes television programs on PBS, C-SPAN, Fox News and four stations in the San Francisco Bay area by picking up signals with antennas on the Google complex, called Googleplex. Video search isn't new, said Danny Sullivan, London-based editor of searchengine watch.com. "The interesting thing is that we haven't had a whole lot of people make a ton of money off of it yet," he said. "But that may change. And it will remain to be seen how Google is going to make the money off of it." John Piscitello, product manager for Google Video, said it's too soon to announce definite plans for revenue, but Google may make money from advertising or subscription fees. Yahoo is also hoping to find a moneymaker in video search. Its service indexes closed-captioned content from Bloomberg and BBC, and Yahoo will work with its partners to offer searchable movie trailers, music videos and news. Yahoo will also allow users to view the video. Google now offers only still photos of the video. Yahoo, which began as a directory - analogous to the table of contents of a book - has pushed further and further into search - analogous to the index of a book - heating up the rivalry with Google. http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzgoog264125525jan26,0,5009325.story?coll=ny-business-headlines

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After months of rumors and speculation, Google finally made its entry into video search on Tuesday and its offering has received mixed reviews, an atypical reaction, considering the company's new services are normally greeted with enthusiasm. http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1480753941;fp;2;fpid;1

wow, google is into everything aren't they?

Sure are.

I have quite a few videos on google video. Search for 'walhus'.