NEWS: GOOGLE AUDIO INDEXING

October 9th, 2008

Google launched new type of service indexing key words for videos on YouTube. As far only videos from YouTube political channel have been indexed. Google created system named GAudi, based on speech recognition technology which transforms spoken words from videos into key words. The mechanism will affect ranking the videos in whole service.

Tou can test beta version here. This service enables us to search trough the video for key words and to watch it exaclty from the moment the words we are looking for were spoken. It can be considered not only as a revolutionary technology but also as a massive time saving factor.

On SearchEngineLand.com you can read interesting prognosis of the change that audio indexing might accomplish.

-mw