NY Times|Millions of Videos, and Now a Way to Search Inside Them
By JASON PONTIN. February 25, 2007
Search engines like Google do not do a very good job of searching through video because they don’t search the videos themselves; rather they search the text “metadata” associated with them (keywords, suffixes like .mpeg, captions and subtitles). Many Internet videos have little or obscure text, and clips often have no or misleading metadata.
Blinkx, a San Francisco start-up, uses speech-recognition technology with statistical analysis in which ‘the hidden characteristics of a thing are guessed from what is known.’
Test it for accuracy. I just searched for “gold star” and sure enough, there was Helen Mirren getting her Oscar (aka her ‘gold star’). No such luck on Google Video search.
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