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Google Adding Personal Video to Search Repertoire

Lisa Minter (lisa_minter2001@yahoo.com)
05 Apr 2005 22:57:05 -0700

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc. plans to put out a call for
personal video clips as it moves to further expand the reach of its
Web search business, company co-founder Larry Page said on Monday.

"We're going to start taking video submissions from people," Page said
at the annual cable industry convention in San Francisco.

Google in January rolled out the test version of its video search
service that allows users to find content in television programs from
such providers as Fox News, the NBA and PBS.

The service, called Google Video, allows users to see still images
from the video clips and associated closed-captioning.

Google has search relationships with numerous content and broadband
providers and hopes to extend those into new areas. For example,
cable company Comcast Corp. uses Google search on its site and also
creates its own content.

"We're always looking for ways to expand partnerships," Google
co-founder Sergey Brin said.

The company on Monday also said it would provide data about popular
Web searches to Current, a new television network for the 18- to
34-year-old audience that is backed by former U.S. Vice President Al
Gore and other investors.

Google's main rival Yahoo Inc. led by former Hollywood studio
executive Terry Semel, has made a big move into entertainment and
already has struck exclusive content deals with "Survivor" creator
Mark Burnett and JibJab Media, a producer of short animated films.

Google's Brin said investors should not take the company's recent
steps as a cue that it, too, is making similar moves into
entertainment.

"Entertainment is one of the applications (of search). It is one of
the kinds of information you can find -- it's just one," Brin said.

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