March 23, 2007
Coming Soon: Online Video Search ala TV Guide
Looks like somebody took the cue from a question asked recently on whose going to be the TV guide of online video. And its none other than, well, you guess it right, TV Guide, TV viewers most trusted program guides for 53 years now. Yahoo Tech News reports via AP, says that its finally going into the online video business by testing its online video search tool.
But wait, the company is not going to index/crawl or aggregate all videos available on the web, including user-generated videos. Instead, it will focus on the published videos of 60 media web sites. Only those originally produced by various media companies will be included in TV Guide online video search, such videos produced by ABC, Fox, among other mainstream media companies. (more…)
