Google Launches Audio Search
Google Labs has launched an experimental audio search which allows one to search text within YouTube videos. “Google Audio Indexing“, it’s called.
On the backend, Google has taken the audio tracks of YouTube videos of politicians, and automatically converted it to text for search capability.
How will this impact the overall internet? (more…)
Popularity: 2% [?]
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Posted by Chris Silver Smith of Netconcepts on 09/17/2008 | Permalink | 
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Filed under: Googleblended search, Google Audio, video search, YouTube
Flickr As New YouTube Killer?
Michael Arrington at Techcrunch reports that video is coming soon to Flickr.
This is great news, and I think it could become an overnight major competitor to YouTube — having both types of media available via one site/service makes for a lot of convenience.
Though, people may not realize that it’s already been possible to a small degree, if you upload an animated GIF to Flickr (see this example where I uploaded an animated sequence of a glider’s movement from Conway’s Game of Life).
Popularity: 18% [?]
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Posted by Chris Silver Smith of Netconcepts on 03/17/2008 | Permalink | Email
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Filed under: General, Image Optimizationflickr, Yahoo, YouTube
