Dear colleagues:

I first tried the longer blue link for Google's video search, but 
got only empty verbiage (Goggle tooting its own horn).  Complete 
waste of time.

Then I tried a shorter blue link  -- and that link DOES work:

"HTTP://VIDEO.GOOGLE.COM"

I tested it for various references to PBS's recent James Dean 
Biography ("American Masters" series), and several excerpts were 
indeed displayed.  Evidently computerized "speech recognition" is 
used to convert spontaneous, slurred interviews to printed text 
(equivalent to subtitles). Not surprisingly, that can -- and does 
-- result in the occasional wrong word or even garbled nonsense.  
Perhaps with time the speech recognition will be perfected...

Cheers,
Steven P Hill,
University  of Illinois.
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Date:    Sun, 22 May 2005 06:34:16 -0500
From:    Jeremy Butler <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Google's New TV (Video) Search

One of Google's new services includes the ability to search the 
closed-captioning text of TV programs.  [ ... ]

There are several cool things about this, not the least of which is the 
illustration of the search results with frame grabs from segments of the 
program, accompanying bits of text.  To test it, I tried searching on 
"deadwood" to see what sort of references there are to my new favorite 
HBO program.  To my surprise, it found a screeing of John Ford's /My 
Darling Clementine/ on a PBS station.  Suddenly, I was staring at a 
frame grab of Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp! [ ... ]

http://video.google.com/video_about.html
[ Hill's comment: THIS is the longer (seemingly useless) blue link.]
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