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Amazon and Google let us search within printed books now. I've found a couple places online that provide a search within the closed captioning of their own online videos. But it would be nice to do a text search on television closed captioning, returning a list of program name/network, etc., with search
terms highlighted within a context snippet (a la Google results). It could potentially provide links to relevant online episode guides, network homepage, etc. It would be nice if it also provided a CC transcript, though that presents obvious copyright issues.
The database could be populated either directly by television networks that chose to participate, and/or by a distributed network of volunteers. An app could be provided so that anyone with a TV tuner in their computer could glean CC data and automatically submit it to the database (again, potential copyright/licensing issues here). Redundant data from multiple users could be used for validation, and to filter data vandalism.
Google Tunes Into TV
http://www.google.c...pressrel/video.html
Describes the initial beta version of Google Video, which has since been converted to a video search engine, and not what is described here any longer. [krelnik, Aug 03 2009]
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To my understanding, amazon and google don't let users search within printed books that their publishers don't want them to search in. |
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If a network doesn't want to do this, it doesn't matter whether a volunteer types in the data - it's still the network's, and if they don't want their content out, they can prevent that.
(Actually, I don't know. Is compiling a search index and serving up samples "fair use"? Google says they think yes, but if they were really completely right, why stop indexing when copyright holders say "no"?) |
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This is, of course, completely idiotic on part of the networks and will ultimately change - but I don't think that this idea isn't happening has to do with nobody thinking of it. |
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There are lots of nightmarishly pop-up infested sites that purport to do something like this, in a badly maintained, badly organized, fan-supported, bit-torrent-connected, harmless-but-illegal way. |
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I believe Google baked this about 4 1/2 years ago, but ran
smack into the copyright issues that jutta points out above.
See link. |
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