Inside Online Video

July 31st, 2008

YouTube Does Speech Recognition

Google has been harvesting speech recognition data through Google 411 for a while now. Apparently, the service has yielded a good harvest. YouTube now extracts metadata from spoken words in videos.
Tags: Google, Search, YouTube

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June 30th, 2008

Today Seth MacFarlane, Tomorrow YouTube Partners?

So let’s get this straight: Google AdSense ad units, contained in and contextual to content sites, will now contain Google-syndicated content contextual to the content sites, that contains ads contextual to the Google-syndicated content.
Talk about picture-in-picture-in-picture.
Tags: AdSense, advertising, Google, Seth MacFarlane, YouTube

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April 1st, 2008

YouTube Contest to Choose Martian Settlers

Want to be among the first humans on Mars? Then get inside online video! Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin announce a partnership with Virgin to select the first settlers on Mars through 30-second YouTube video responses.
Tags: April Fools, Comedy, Contests, Google, Larry Page, Mars, Richard Branson, Sergey Brin, Virgin, Virgle, YouTube

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February 21st, 2008

AdSense for Video!

Google AdSense powers the Long Tail of the Web’s text content, and now it can power the Long Tail of the Web’s video content. Adopting YouTube’s InVideo ad format, AdSense for Video is now open for beta applications. Before you sign up to become the next Chad Hurley, check if you meet the beta signup […]

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