Monthly Archives: May 2007

More about Chunks: The Parts You Want

30 May 2007 – 1:55 pm

We got some questions about what these chunk-things are after my last post. Some folks asked how this is different from just searching for the utterance of a word in video. It’s quite a bit different. Matt Marshall at Venture Beat did a good job describing how Pluggd works in this post (http://venturebeat.com/2006/12/06/pluggd-perfects-audio-and-video-search-raises-165m/) after [...]

By alex castro | Posted in development, features, web 2.0 | Comments (10)

Google Combining Video with Search Results: Halfway There.

17 May 2007 – 2:54 pm

Google’s uber search across text, images and now video has a lot of people talking, including the New York Times. But the enthusiasm ignores how people really use search.
Searching includes not only finding results, but also figuring out which results you want. Google’s text search does a good job of highlighting a web page to [...]

By alex castro | Posted in news, web 2.0 | Comments (7)