Youtube remains unprofitable 3 years after Google acquisition

Re:Youtube remains unprofitable 3 years after Google acquisi... by ori_b on Friday July 10, 2009 @12:21PM (#697897)

How can you automatically detect that from a video? And if instead of automatically detecting it, you just let the users tag the video, why does text search not work? Finally, even if they manage to get a useful video search working, why do they need Youtube for it, when they can crawl the web for video?

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Re:Youtube remains unprofitable 3 years after Google acquisi... by e1ven on Friday July 10, 2009 @12:32PM (#697927)

Google is working on this- One theory is that part of why they are working on Goog411 is to increase their voice reco engine, so that they can apply it to Video and Audio search.

Google hired several engineers away from Nuance (one of the leaders in voice recognition), and they're working hard on growing their development there.

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Re:Youtube remains unprofitable 3 years after Google acquisi... by vijayr on Friday July 10, 2009 @12:30PM (#697919)

How can you automatically detect that from a video?

that is the point I'm trying to make. it is not possible today, I guess it will be possible in future.

how much can you tag? and who will do all the work of tagging? it has to be automated, like text search. video search is going to be much more difficult than text, and G has tons of videos to mine and refine algos.

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Re:Youtube remains unprofitable 3 years after Google acquisi... by RK on Friday July 10, 2009 @01:22PM (#698030)

One thing you can search is closed captioning, like SnapStream does:

http://www.snapstream.com/tvtrends/

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Re:Youtube remains unprofitable 3 years after Google acquisi... by jokermatt999 on Saturday July 11, 2009 @01:21PM (#699376)

YouTube has also added a closed captioning feature, but I'm not sure how it is done. I assume this is also working towards video search.

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