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When it comes to search engine competition, Yahoo is hoofing it to stay in second. Google's acceptance of video submission follows a similar effort by competitor Yahoo Inc., especially since Yahoo launched a video search engine as a beta test in December.
Google announced that it is ready to expand its experimentation with video search this week by allowing individuals to submit video to the search engine. For the first time, individuals will be able to save their DV and DVD footage to the big Googlator, and rumors are that there will have a 24 terabyte limit per user.
Google co-founder Larry Page on Monday disclosed the company's plan to begin accepting video submissions during a session at the 2005 National Show, a cable industry conference and tradeshow. The move would be the next step for Google's video search effort, which so far has focused on making broadcast TV content searchable. Google entered the video search arena in January with a Google Labs project that indexes programming information and closed-captioning content from such networks as PBS, Fox News and C-SPAN.
"In the next few days we'll start taking video submissions from people," said Page, Google's president of products. "And we're not sure what we're going to get with it."
Page didn't provide details about Google's video-submission effort, such as the process by which it will accept submissions or how the videos will be used. Another Google representative confirmed that the video submissions would be used as part of the Google Video service, but again declined to provide further details until the submission product would become available.
So far, Google Video does not provide playback of programs, Maybe this is Yahoo's chance to play catch up. Google is highlighting where a keyword appears in a transcript and displaying still-frame images of shows. Yahoo is ready to pounce... providing programming, and has been for a while.
See how easy the video submission process really is.