http://video.google.com/

From the Google blog:

Google Video is a new product that enables you to search an index of transcripts from recent TV programs. It's just an early-stage beta product at this point; you'll only see stills and text snippets from shows that match your search terms, and you can only search shows from a few channels, dating back to December, 2004, when we started compiling the index. But we'll be steadily improving Google Video in the months to come, so as they say in the TV biz, stay tuned.

Those guys are machines!

Interesting, could this lead to streaming tv shows?

uh, i'm pretty sure it's JUST a search engine wetty

Interesting, could this be leading to nuclear war ?

just demonstrating irattional links.

on the flip side, sounds good, specially for uni/school research and stuff.

what WILL google come up with next.

The OC | Episode Example

Whats the go here..... ?

at 28 minutes 30 seconds
♫ @< If you think all batteries @are the Sa, consider this.R $ when the Rocky mountai jscueroup needs light to save lives,R R they trust Duracell... Up there or right here at home.R >pz>// C"*

From what i can see, most of the transcripts are like so =/

no, that was just google overloading with the crapness of the OC

^ so true

But i did search something and it said video unavailable -> useful

Interesting, could this be leading to nuclear war ?

just demonstrating irattional links.

WetWired's question wasnt really that strange. The hop from allowing you to search the teletext of shows, to being able to watch that episode isnt that far. In fact if you look at the results for some shows they show "Video is currently not available".. meaning at some point it may be?

WetWired's thought will probably come true, you know...

From the Google Video FAQ
-----
Can I play the videos that Google Video finds?
Not yet, but stay tuned...
---

streaming video, is completely different to showing the text.

have a small think about all that would be involved, it's a touch different.

yeah so shut the f*** up

also today's poll on Optuscable homepage is "Would you change web browsers to Google if they hade one?"

is there nothing google can't do !

last edited by Goody at 19:00:10 27/Jan/05

what would i have to do to buy shares in google?

ditto jerry, google is becomeing a giant, almost > microsoft in quantity, (its always been > than microsoft in quality)

they are listed on wall street on the american stock exchange.

from mmemory they floated at around $50US a share, not 100% sure of current stock price though.

In trading Thursday, Google's shares fell 5 cents to close at $195.33 on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

heh, maybe it was $200 they floated at. Whatever it was, it was obscene and you'd only invest for the yield and not the capital gain.

^^ either way i would never ever even remotely suggest you were wrong, cos yor spidz ^^

obviously I was wrong, for some reason I thought they floated at $50, but clearly they didn't.

I vaguley remember they cut their market cap by about 50% of their original plan, but it was still a massive float resulting in instant billionnaires.

US$85 maybe

anyhoo whatever it was its more then doubled

yeh people who bought GOOG when it was firt offered were smart indeed.

streaming video, is completely different to showing the text.

have a small think about all that would be involved, it's a touch different.

just an update, both tv shows (maybe in the future, but crap ones) and porn being streamed for a price, taken from imdb:

TV Shows May Go To Internet Video on Demand

DVD distributors who are encountering resistance from already overstocked retail stores to carrying boxed sets of TV shows may turn to the Internet to ply their wares, according to Home Media Retailing magazine. The trade publication said that 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment may be pointing the way by offering an eight-episode set of the Fox network's Playing It Straight and CBS's Big Brother 3 on the CinemaNow website. It pointed out that five of the episodes of Playing it Straight, in which a woman had to guess if the men she was dating were gay or not, have never aired following controversy over the show.

+

Porn Movies Find New Outlet -- VOD

Bankrupt cable company Adelphia Communications will begin offering porn movies to its Southern California customers via video-on-demand (VOD) technology, which is now available to about two-thirds of its 1.2 million subscribers, the Los Angeles Times reported today (Wednesday). "People want it, so we are trying to provide it," Adelphia spokeswoman Erica Stull told the newspaper. "The more Xs, the more popular." The films are being provided to Adelphia by Playboy Enterprises. The decision reverses one by Adelphia founder, 79-year-old John Rigas, who once booted the Spice channel off his cable systems, calling it immoral. Rigas was convicted last summer of using the company as his own personal bank, drawing millions of dollars out of it and attempting to hide the withdrawals through a maze of accounting plots. He faces a 30-year sentence.