Googling For Google Keynote Video
Gary wrote
about the AOL acquisition of Truveo, which talks about how it will supposedly do
a better job than other video search engines in finding relevant, timely
content. I’m going to rope Gary into doing some testing, which should be fun.
But I thought I’d try a quick one myself. What do I get in a search for Google
on these services? In my mind, if they are timely, I should get something about
the Google keynote at CES last year. Let’s go!
Overall, Truveo delivered well. But this is also involving a current events
query. If I really wanted that old Brady Bunch episode, it won’t come through
for me on that.
In the end, you’re likely to see video search get just as refined as web
search did — video search for news, video search for entertainment, videocasts
and so on.
Postscript from Gary
Although they DO NOT offer access to the News.com report of the keynote, AOL Video Search has a number of current video news stories about Google.
Also, Yahoo News (limited to audio/video content) has a recent Reuters report (video) and an NPR story about the Google/AOL deal.