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Big Brother is watching you

By: Big-Brother -- Dec 17, 2007 07:12:47 Category: Web, HTML, Tech

Yes, it's true. Big Brother IS watching you. March 10, 2006 Forbes article by Matt Rand. Google Video's Achilles' Heel. . 2007-12-17. URL:http://www.forbes.com/2006/03/10/google-video-search-tve yes-in_mr_bow0313_inl.html. Accessed: 2007-12-17. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/5U9F8exUJ ) Quote: [T]here are at least three upstarts, TVEyes, BBN and Autonomy (via Blinkx) that already offer full text audio-search services. These companies got their start in the business by performing speech-recognition searches for the government. The U.S. Departments of Defense and Homeland Security have a great interest in being able to search for words across various streams of audio and video data. In fact, almost all speech-recognition software derives from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)-funded research from the 1970s. (DARPA also developed the network of computers that would eventually become the Internet.) Because of the costliness and complexity of developing speech-recognition technology, bigger companies (Google, Yahoo!) will either have to license the technology or acquire companies who already have it. This isn't the kind of project you can ask a few engineers to bang out in a week. However, the defense contractors haven't waited around for Google and Yahoo! to come knocking. Instead, those contractors and enterprise vendors have begun to build their own front-end interfaces to open these searches to the consumer market. TVEyes, for example, has been around for seven years and counts the Department of Defense as one of its biggest customers. Its consumer search business, tveyes.com, and podcast-search site podscope.com account for relatively little of the company's revenue. But CEO David Ives expects rapid growth in this sector. Says Ives, "We're trying to be an arms dealer" for the bigger search companies, licensing out its technology. What you'll find on the TVEyes site is a search that pulls results from the online versions of major network's media content. A search for "Dubai" returned video clips from Foxnews.com and CNN.com. The results are based mainly on a phonetic transcript of the video clips, and you can play the snippet that contains your search term right on the TVEyes page. For the rest of the clip, a link will send you to the content maker. On TVEyes' Podscope.com, you can search about 100,000 audio and video podcasts, giving audio and video bloggers (known as vloggers--check out the Forbes Best of the Web reviews of vlogging sites) a chance to submit their sites to the search index. This lets you find out what amateur content creators have to say about a topic, and it helps podcasters get exposure. Endquote

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